Today, the Nujiang River's fury draws adventurers. The local government has certified whitewater rafting routes, training villagers as guides and hosts. Homestays and eco-lodges now dot the valley, ...

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

Criterion (x): Northwest Yunnan is the area of richest biodiversity in China and ... Southeast Asia, and Tibetan Plateau, biogeographical realms and its function as a N-S corridor for the movement of ...

Guizhou occupies the pinnacle of this geological formation, positioned in the alternating zone between the Yunnan Plateau and the Lower Yangtze Valley Plain, resulting in frequent shifts between ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on southwest China's Yunnan Province to break new ground for its development in the ...

On March 19 and 20, Xi inspected the city of Lijiang and the provincial capital, Kunming, accompanied by Wang Ning, secretary of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee, and Wang Yubo, governor of the ...

The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the western Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (averaging 2100 meters elevation) to ...

Li Liegang, an official from Yunnan's Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that the province will focus on key ...

KUNMING -- A research team has discovered a new lichen genus on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as the "roof of the world." The genus has been named Pseudosolorina. The team's findings were ...

He urged the province to accelerate the development of the cultural and tourism industries and the distinctive agriculture unique to plateau areas. Yunnan should leverage its strategic location to ...