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ecns
April 4, 2018
He Zhengguo, 40, is the Party secretary of Tongle in Yunnan's Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture. When he arrived at the Lisu ethnic community in 2013, the village was in dire poverty and had been seeing an exodus of young people for years. When he saw that villagers earned little by growing wheat,Ãâà...
NewscastStudio
April 4, 2018
Main news and information center including all sets for news, business & livelihood programs as well as the entire newsroom and control room area. To allow the channel and its program directors to use the studio sets as flexible as possible a reduced contemporary design language was chosen combined with large videoÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2018
Nestled in the towering mountains of southern China, an impossibly turquoise river passes over a beautiful set of terraces. As the water runs over these flat platforms, it forms dozens of miniature whitewater waterfalls, cascading down the mountain valley. Like the Pamukkale Water Terraces in Turkey, theÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 3, 2018
However, for over 250 years, this little pocket of Yunnan province in Southwest China has been renowned for producing dry-cured ham. In fact, they even received international acclaim when they won a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition for their meat product. Xuanwei ham isÃâà...
GoKunming (blog)
March 29, 2018
Besides the otherworldly surroundings and views, other factors also work to make trekking 'the gorge' one of the most worthwhile trips in the country for outdoor enthusiasts, and a can't-miss destination for those visiting Yunnan province. While the trails snaking through Tiger Leaping Gorge are neverÃâà...
China.org.cn
March 29, 2018
Pu'er, a city long famous for fermented tea, has now also become a capital of coffee planting. That's due, in part, to the Starbucks Yunnan Farmer Support Center, which was built in 2012 to help local coffee farmers with sustainable practices while providing high quality Yunnan Arabica beans for theÃâà...
Sixth Tone
March 20, 2018
The program will target 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan that often aren't represented in scientific studies, Yang Jingyi, head of the biobank and a senior researcher at Shunxi Regenerative Medicine, a privately owned biotech company, told Sixth Tone. “With this approach, we hope to fill the void of biologicalÃâà...
Xinhua
March 16, 2018
GUIYANG, China, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Yunnan province took home four gold medals at the National Cross Country Championships held in Qingzhen, Guiyang on Thursday and Friday. After two days of competition, Yunnan became the biggest winner, taking four gold medals from 10 races. Peng JianqiÃâà...
ecns
March 15, 2018
Ten wild Asian elephants have caused financial losses to villagers by eating crops in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Insufficient food in local forests in Ning'er County led the mammals to roam fields in several villages in the county, where they have munched on crops and played for the past twoÃâà...
Flightglobal
March 15, 2018
China Southern Airlines has set up a branch office in Yunnan province in a bid to strengthen its network in the country's southwest region. The carrier will also launch eight domestic routes out of Yunnan on 25 March. These are: Qingdao-Zhenzhou-Kunming, Shantou-Kunming, Kunming-Dali,Ãâà...
The News Lens International
March 14, 2018
Yunnan is one of China's most distinct provinces - with an ever-changing landscape, from dreamy, rolling rice terraces, to vast Tibetan plains 10,000 feet above sea level, this charming land is host to the largest number of ethnic minorities in China. With the diversity in its people comes diversity in food.
The Beijinger (blog)
March 12, 2018
The bowl of soupy Yunnan over the bridge rice noodles (云南过桥米线, RMB 48) comes in a bowl big enough for three customers, or one starving patron. Though not much to look at and not particularly flavorful, its cloudy and soothing hot broth, as well as its abundance of veggies and springy noodles,Ãâà...
Aviation Week
March 9, 2018
BEIJING—China Southern Airlines set up a branch company in the southwestern Chinese province Yunnan, a stronghold of rival China Eastern Airlines. Eight new China Southern domestic routes from Yunnan will be opened this month and an international service to Islamabad from provincial capitalÃâà...
ATWOnline
March 9, 2018
China Southern Airlines has set up a branch company in the southwestern Chinese province Yunnan, a stronghold of rival China Eastern Airlines. Eight new China Southern domestic routes from Yunnan will be opened in March and a service to Islamabad, Pakistan, from provincial capital Kunming willÃâà...
ecns
March 4, 2018
Saizhuang Jie, or the "costume competition festival", is held in Yongren county of Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province each year on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It originated in Zhiju. The young people of a remote village in Southwest China's Yunnan province attended a localÃâà...
GoKunming (blog)
February 28, 2018
A Beijing-based NGO filed a lawsuit on February 23 against the companies responsible for developing a hydropower station near a nature reserve in southwestern China, citing numerous environmental violations. Construction of the Huilong Mountain Hydropower Station (回龙山水电站), in Yunnan'sÃâà...
Sixth Tone
February 27, 2018
A Beijing-based NGO filed a lawsuit on Friday against the companies responsible for developing a hydropower station near a nature reserve in southwestern China, citing numerous environmental violations. Construction of the Huilong Mountain Hydropower Station, in Yunnan's verdant XishuangbannaÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 22, 2018
Yunnan province in southwest China prides itself on its colourful ethnic minority groups, picturesque landscapes and rich biodiversity. It is also a destination for health-conscious food lovers to explore, many of whom are drawn by the chance to get a true taste of nature. One thing they search for in particularÃâà...
Broadsheet
December 31, 1999
Graham's infatuation led to “equal parts passion, fatigue and frustration at the lack of good tea” in Melbourne, so he decided to go to Yunnan and bring some here himself. Kuura Tea is his new one-man operation. Graham stocks five types of tea: a ripe puer, two raw puers, a black and a white. The teas areÃâà...
GoKunming (blog)
December 31, 1999
In Hong Kong, signs telling people how to behave, where to look and when to do it are so commonplace they have become the pervasive subject of local humor. After a new set of laws emerged out of Yunnan last week — ones that seem to strike at the heart of local tradition — our beloved province South ofÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
Two tourists pose for a selfie with cherry blossoms at Yuantongshan Park in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 6, 2018. The cultivation of cherry blossoms in Kunming can be traced back to as early as the 13th century. Nowadays, the cherry blossoms at Kunming'sÃâà...
Sixth Tone
December 31, 1999
YUNNAN, Southwest China — Armed with only a hoe and sickle, and without armor or protective equipment, Wang Kaixue claims that he has dug up over 10,000 mines since 1996. The 48-year-old from Balihe Village has combed over an area larger than 20 Olympic-size soccer fields for mines. Along theÃâà...
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