Travel News
- Experts specializing in the Naxi ethnic group, cultural experts from Kunming and reporters attended the opening ceremony of an exhibition on the Dongba culture of Naxi people at Kunming Museum.
- KUNMING - Lucky Air, a subsidiary of HNA Group, has launched a direct air route between southwest China's Kunming city, Yunnan province, and Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
- The play "Pingtan Impression", produced, directed and starring renowned Chinese dancer Yang Liping, made its stage debut in Beijing on Jan 15. The song and dance drama showcases Pingtan's most famous fold stories, myths, and legends.
- Ya Dang steadies himself before making the jump from the Beipan River Bridge, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 8, 2017.
- A Chinese-led international team of scientists has identified a new species of apes after discovering significant differences between gibbons living in China and their counterparts in other countries.
- Since opening its doors in 2009, Dwarf Empire has been a divisive subject. Critics are aghast at its mere existence and criticize it, while others admire it for providing employment where opportunities for disabled people are sparse.
- Swiss food giant's purchases increased from 80 tons in 1991 to 13,500 during the current year. Nestle's presence in Southwest China's Yunnan province is helping local people shake off poverty.
Wang Zhongxue, a coffee farmer, said he escaped poverty thanks to assistance from the Swiss food giant.
- Tourists visit Lijiang to find the legendary Tea Horse Road, to enjoy scenery or to search for inner peace. Lijiang has been famous all over China as a key town along the ancient Tea Horse Road in Yunnan province since the 6th century. Now it's a major travel destination.
- The ecological village of Nuohei in Yunnan province is gearing up to host a series of spectacular festivities at the week-long Mizhi Festival unveil from Dec 8 to 14.
- Chief Li's position suggests he's a small-town bureaucrat, but as I read Zhang's new book, Travels Through Dali With a Leg of Ham, a different picture emerges. Chief Li sees himself in charge not of a place or its people, but its music. He tells Zhang, and clearly anyone else who asks, that he is...
