The shift in trade toward China affected Southeast Asian localities in different ways. The Javanese and Balinese began to import Chinese bronze coins to use as small change in the eleventh century, and by the thirteenth century, when supplies from China ran low, they copied Chinese coins for their own use. In ports all over the region, Chinese merchants came to outnumber Indian merchants, especially after the Mongol conquest of South China in the 1270s, when many Chinese moved permanently to Southeast Asia.
