Yunnan - A Major Tourist Destination In China

Yunnan: A Major Tourist Destination In China


Yunnan (Chinese: Chinese Pinyin: Yunnan, IPA hear: (), literally "South of the Clouds" is) a province of the People's Republic of China, south-west of the country's extreme about 394,000 square kilometers ( 152,000 square miles). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam.

Yunnan is located in a mountainous area with elevations in north-western and southern lowlands. The majority of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the West, the relative height can be the top of the river valleys are all 3,000 m. Yunnan is rich in natural resources and the greatest diversity of flora in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has more than 17,000. reserve in Yunnan Aluminum, lead, zinc and tin, the largest in China, and there are also significant reserves of copper and nickel. Yunnan has more than 600 lakes and rivers, which provide an annual water supply of 222 billion cubic meters. water reserves projected at 103 GW stand, with a useful capacity of 90 GW.

Yunnan is part of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220) in the second century BC. It was the seat of a kingdom Tibeto-Burmese language in the 8th Century Nanzhao known. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite probably spoke a language close to Yi and modern Burma. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, performed by the local control of warlords until the 1930s. As with other parts of the South-West China Japanese occupation in the north during the Second World War forced a migration of Chinese into the region. Ethnic minorities in Yunnan accounts for about 34 percent of the total population. The main ethnic groups are the Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Miao and Dai.

Yunnan is a generally mild, with pleasant weather and beautiful, because the location of the province on the south side, receiving the influence of both the Pacific and Indian oceans, although the growing season is long, there is little arable land. See agriculture in Yunnan. January average temperatures between 8 ° C to 17 ° C on average in July range from 21 ° to 27 ° C. Average annual rainfall varies between 600 mm to 2300 mm, with more than half the episodes of rain from June to August The plateau has a moderate temperature. The region of West Canyon is hot and humid in the valleys, but there are icy winds on the summits.

Lakes

There are several large lakes in Yunnan. The province has nine lakes with areas of about 30 square kilometers. [4] These include:

* Dianchi Lake near Kunming
* Fuxian Lake, Yuxi, the second deepest lake in China
* Erhai Lake near Dali
* Lugu Lake, in Ninglang near the border of Sichuan
Qilu Lake *
* Lake Yangzong in Yiliang, Kunming
* Lake Yilong
* Lake Xingyun

Rivers

Yunnan is the source of two rivers, the river Xi (known there as the Nanpan and Hongshui) and the Yuan River. The Hongshui is a major source of the river flows Xi. Rising Nanpan that in eastern Yunnan Province, it flows south and east, are part of the border between Guizhou province and Guangxi autonomous region. Arising out of 345 km, it joins the river forming the Yu Guiping and finally to the Xi River.

The province is drained by six major river basins:

* The Yangtze River, which, here called the Jinsha Jiang (River of Golden Sands), which drains the northern province.
* The Pearl River with its source near Qujing, collects water from the east.
* The Mekong (Lancang), which flows from Tibet into the South China Sea as a border between Laos and Burma, between Laos and Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
* The Red River (Yuan Honghe) has its source in the mountains south of Dali and enters the South China Sea from Hanoi, Vietnam
* The Salween (Nujiang), which empties into the Gulf of Martaban and the Andaman Sea through Burma
* The Irrawaddy has a few small tributaries Yunnan far west as Dulongjiang and rivers in the prefecture of Dehong.

National Parks
See also: List of national parks in China

* Pudacuo National Park, opened in 2007 in the county of Shangri-La
* Laojunshan National Park, pending Lijiang Prefecture,