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Yumen Pass , or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty , this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed, and was the one road connecting Central Asia with East Asia , the former called the Western Regions. Just to the south was the Yangguan pass, which was also an important point on the Silk Road.