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  China Yunnan & GMS (Greater Mekong Subregion) Destination Marketing System (DMS)- www.YunnanTourism.com
Yunnan is a step back in time with medieval villages of stone houses, arched bridges and classic Chinese temples and pavilions set among snow capped mountains and terraced rice fields.
Yunnan is one of China's most ethnically diverse regions and we explore the fascinating Naxi, Bai and Tibetan cultures and sample the excellent local cuisine.
Yunnan ranks first in China in terms of the variety of its ethnic groups, with 26 nationalities living in compact communities throughout the region.
www.yunnantourism.com   (636 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Yunnan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yunnan is one of China's undeveloped provinces with more poverty-stricken counties than other province.
Yunnan is known to have the greatest number of ethnic groups for any province in China, and is working hard in preserving the culture, heritage, and languages of these diverse peoples:
Shangri-La County or Xianggelila County (Chinese: é¦™æ ¼é‡Œæ‹‰åŽ¿) is a primarily Tibetan county in northwestern Yunnan Province in southwest China.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yunnan   (6533 words)

  
 Beauty, the Land of China - Yunnan
Yunnan, which means "the south of clouds", is also called the "Hometown of colorful clouds".
Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan Province is the political, economic, and cultural center of the province as well as its transportation and communication hubs.
Xishuang Banna is situated in the south of Yunnan, 742 kilometers southwest of Kunming.
library.thinkquest.org /20443/yunnan.html   (1630 words)

  
 Yunnan on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yunnan has a mild climate with balmy and fair weather, but although the growing period is long, there is little arable land.
China is constructing a series of dams on the Mekong to develop it as a waterway and source of power; the first was completed at Manwan in 1993.
Yunnan passed to the Manchus in 1659 and became a province of China under the control of the central government.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yunnan.asp   (774 words)

  
 Yunnan Discovery - SpiceRoads Bike Tours in Yunnan China.
Yunnan is located in the southern part of China, sharing the same border with Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
It is hard to believe that the people who live in Yunnan now still live exactly the way they lived thousands and thousands of years ago… a simple life, undisrupted by the troubles of the outside world.
Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan on the other hand, is a vibrant and growing city, with the all technologies and architecture of a modern city.
www.spiceroads.com /china/china_yunnan   (752 words)

  
 Yunnan - Yunnan Province Map - Maps of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yunnan is the province with the largest number of nationalities in China.
Yunnan, though a province of China, is, in many aspects, a part of Southeast Asia.
Yunnan is the most southwestern province in China, with the Tropic of Cancer Among the 30000 species of plants in China, 18000 can be found in Yunnan.
webinfosites.com /q/yunnan.htm   (183 words)

  
 China - Yunnan - Trip 2002 Mike Dell
Her family could not be present at this wedding, so it was decided to go to China for two additional wedding celebrations They asked their friends and family from the Netherlands to join them and so a group of 14 persons travelled from the Netherlands to China.
The province Yunnan has a lot of different people with their own culture, about 30, amongst them are the Naxi and the Yi who life in the surroundings of Dali and Lijiang.
China is cheap for us, especially when it considers products made with a lot of patience and manpower.
home-1.tiscali.nl /~mndell/enchina.html   (3272 words)

  
 TriniView.com - Journey to Shangri La | Yunnan
Yunnan is the sixth largest province in China with climates ranging from subtropical Xishuangbanna to temperate Tibetan highlands with mountain peaks in permanent snow.
One third of China's ethnic minorities living here come from the border countries of Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and nearby Thailand and constitute 50% of Yunnan's population.
Historically, Yunnan was considered by Beijing to be on the edge of civilisation (China) and therefore barbaric and hence was largely ignored.
www.triniview.com /China/Yunnan.htm   (1487 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in China - Yunnan Province
Fourteen of China's 55 ethnic minorities, including the Naxi and Yi peoples, live within the project area, which is twice the size of Taiwan.
Yunnan Province, in southern China, borders Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar (Burma).
The Conservancy's project area in northwest Yunnan is one of the most vital centers of plant diversity in the northern temperate hemisphere.
nature.org /wherewework/asiapacific/china/work/art5098.html   (498 words)

  
 Yunnan Travel Guide: Yunnan Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Yunnan China
Yunnan (Beautiful Clouds in the South) Province is the most southwest region of China bordering the countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.
Yunnan Province borders Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhang Autonomous Region to the east, Chongqing and Sichuan to the north, and Tibet Autonomous Region to the northwest.
The Naxi (one of 25 ethnic minorities of Yunnan Province) are the predominate population of Lijiang and its surrounding area.
www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/yunnan/index.htm   (1082 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in China - China Nature - China Conservation - China Environment - Yunnan Great Rivers, China
China’s vast terrain and varied climate make it the sixth most biologically diverse nation on the planet.
In May 2006 Conservancy trustees, staff, and supporters from Wisconsin traveled to China to see how the Conservancy works with local people and the Chinese government to protect the biological and cultural resources of this remarkable area.
She discusses a global conservation approach to protecting China's rivers.
www.nature.org /wherewework/asiapacific/china   (169 words)

  
 Destination » China » YunNan | Javisatravel.ca
Yunnan is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese Nation.
From the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) through the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911), Yunnan was under the direct control of the central government, and the cultural and economic exchanges between Yunnan and other parts of the country were more frequent than before.
Yunnan has more than 70 types of mineral resources including phosphorus, lead, zinc, tin, copper, etc. Gejiu is China's leading tin producer, known as the 'tin capital' with a long tin-mining history.
www.javisatravel.ca /chinguid/yunnan.htm   (393 words)

  
 China Yunnan travel guide - HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yunnan has been inhabited for a very long time, with evidence reaching back through galleries of Stone-Age rock art to two 1.5-million-year-old teeth found near the northern town of Yuanmou.
The kingdom was acknowleged by China in 109 BC, its ruler receiving military aid and a golden seal from the emperor Wu, who hoped to control the Southern Silk Road through to India.
Directly controlled by China for the first time, for a while Yunnan served as a remote dustbin for political troublemakers, thereby escaping the population explosions, wars and migrations that plagued central China.
www.chinastage.com /travel-guide/Yunnan/history.html   (534 words)

  
 The Yunnan Plan
The feasibility of the project was determined during the Center director's (Chou Wen-chung) December 1990 and June 1999 visits to Kunming City and Luxi County in Yunnan, where it was immediately met with great enthusiasm by all sectors of the province.
An inter-institutional (kua-danwei) group of junior scholars and artists chosen and established as an NGO by the Center to conduct in-depth research on arts and culture projects related to Yunnan's nationalities and produce publications for dissemination.
A survey of arts and crafts designed by the Center's team of advisors and the Folk Arts Center conducted in 120 counties in Yunnan using 2,000 cultural cadres who were trained to use prevailing international research methodologies in conjunction with their individual knowledge of specific nationalities and villages.
www.columbia.edu /cu/china/yunnan.htm   (287 words)

  
 Asia Journal / China -- Yunnan & Guanxi Part 3
in china, the distances were so much greater that we seemed to be traveling much more and unfortunately seeing less of the daily life of the people.
From excellent films like the 'King of Masks' where children were sold in old china, to reports of the sale of wives for rural country men, one got a feeling that people were just doing the best they knew how to survive.
but throughout china, it is normal to see grown men draping arms around each other as they walk down the street, girls and boys hand in hand and arm in arm, sometimes four or five across.
www.paulwhkan.com /asia/yunnan/yunnanguanxi3.html   (1251 words)

  
 China yunnan airline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I previously had been on the whirlwind two-week, see-everything tour including a trip on the Yangtze and felt that I had seen enough of China's must-see sights.
In February 2000, while on a second trip to Burma and Laos, I decided to tack Yunnan on the end of my trip.
Because Yunnan has had excellent coverage in ITN, I will just give a rundown on how a single senior met the challenge of traveling alone.
airlines.998guide.com /china-yunnan-airline   (1286 words)

  
 Regional> Asia> China> Yunnan> Kunming
In southwestern Yunnan Province, an exhibition of photographs on the subject of HIV/AIDS prevention is on display in the provincial capital of Kunming.
The four-day event was held in Kunming, Yunnan Province on 24-27 November 2005.
Chinese police seize 110 kg of "ice" in SW China provincePeople's Daily Online, China - Nov 29, 2005This is the largest methamphetamine smuggling case that the police in Kunming, provincial capital of Yunnan, have ever cracked, according to local public...
www.computerrescue911.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming   (319 words)

  
 Asean News Network: China's Yunnan Governor Visits Burma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
China's official news agency says the governor of China's Yunnan province has arrived in Burma for a visit focused on strengthening trade and economic relations.
Speaking at the second China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, the official said China is currently the third largest trade partner of Myanmar after Thailand and Singapore.
Is it mere co-incidence that the conservative ball park estimate of the net worth of the Lee family is roughly equivalent to your country's reserves?
www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2005/05/chinas-yunnan-governor-visits-burma.html   (812 words)

  
 china, yunnan, kunming, shilin, xishuangbanna, jinghong, rainer stalvik
The province of Yunnan, which means ” Behind the Clouds” is located in the southwestern part of China.
Chinas population is dominated by the han-people (92 %), but you can also find approximately 56 different minorities here.
The gateway is the entrance to "the forbidden city" in Beijing and is the place where Mao Zedong announced "The peoples Republic of China" on October 1st, 1949.
www.stalvik.com /Engelska/laechina.htm   (506 words)

  
 SIT Study Abroad - China: Yunnan Province -- Language and Cultures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
China is witnessing an extraordinary acceleration in economic development.
In the face of modernization and social change, China’s minority cultures struggle to maintain their precarious hold on traditional ways.
Yunnan province, home to nearly half of the country’s minority groups, provides unique opportunities to examine the richly varied cultures of this vast nation.
www.sit.edu /studyabroad/asia/chinayun.html   (154 words)

  
 Lucent Technologies builds multiservice broadband network for China's Yunnan Telecom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yunnan's new network, expected to become operational in April, will launch new services for enterprises and individual consumers including E-commerce applications, commercial IP services, integrated network wholesale business, individual consumer IP services, Virtual Private Network (VPN), IP telephony voice over IP (VoIP), frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) services.
Yunnan Telecom's multiservice broadband network is part of China Telecom's multiservice national network.
Yunnan will deploy more than 1, 000 ports installing network nodes in the Provincial Network Management Center located in Kunming and 14 other locations including Kunming, Yuxi, Honghe, Dali, Xishuangbanna, Dehong and Lijiang.
www.lucent.com /press/0300/000330.nsa.html   (747 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in China - China Nature - China Conservation - China Environment - Yunnan Great Rivers, China
China’s vast terrain and varied climate make it the sixth most biologically diverse nation on the planet.
Throughout Yunnan's remote mountain areas, about 80% of households depend on wood for cooking, heating, and housing.
One example includes the China Conservation Blueprint — the first comprehensive assessment of biodiversity in the nation's history.
nature.org /wherewework/asiapacific/china   (182 words)

  
 Rapid Biological Inventories: Results from the Field : China 04
The human communities living at the foothills reflect the enormous cultural diversity in Yunnan.
As a whole, Yunnan province has 25 out of the 55 ethnic minority groups recognized in China (Population Census Office of Yunnan, 1992).
Principal measures include (i) proper disposal of waste, (ii) no use of firewood for cooking and heating, (iii) restriction of activities to well designed trails (which are managed for minimal erosion), (iv) minimal use of pack animals, (v) limited overnight trips.
www.columbia.edu /cu/china/results_china.html   (1770 words)

  
 Yunnan Trekking, Yunnan Travel, Destinations guide in Kunming, Yunnan, China
Yunnan Trekking, Yunnan Travel, Destinations guide in Kunming, Yunnan, China
Here is a list of sample trekking tours in Yunnan.
Voyage Yunnan - Randonnées au Yunnan - Agence de voyages Chine - Kunming - Yunnan - Lijiang - Zhongdian - Randonnées Chine - Voyage Chine - Circuits Chine
www.yunnan-roads.com /tours/yunnan/trekking.htm   (189 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com Bird flu in Vietnam
Southwest China's english.pravda.ru/society/2001/04/13/3544.html ' target=_blank>Yunnan Province, which borders Vietnam, has taken a series of emergency measures to prevent bird flu in Vietnam from spreading into China, sources with the local government said Saturday.
Yunnan shares a 1,200-kilometer-long border with Vietnam, wherepeople of 13 ethnic groups live across border and there are nearly100 marketplaces for cross border trade, reports Xinhua.
Southwest China's Yunnan Province, which borders Vietnam, has taken a series of emergency measures to prevent bird flu in Vietnam from spreading into China, sources with the local government said Saturday More details...
newsfromrussia.com /science/2005/01/09/57769.html   (1677 words)

  
 China Yunnan Photo Gallery - 312 high quality pictures of Yunnan, pictures, Yunnan photos, stock photography
Yunnan, which lies in China's southwest, is the most varied of China's provinces, with terrain ranging from tropical rainforests in the south to snow-capped Tibetan peaks in the north.
It's China's sixth largest province and home to one third of China's ethnic minorities.
All images are protected by copyright and may not be copied, reproduced or republished in any form without the permission of the author.
www.molon.de /galleries/China/Yunnan   (128 words)

  
 Earthquake Kills 16, Injures 400 in China's Yunnan
The epicentre was located in the town of Tanhua, at 26 degrees latitude north and 101.2 degrees longitude east, according to seismologists with the China Seismological Bureau.
Yunnan Vice-Governor Li Hanbai has gone to the disaster area to supervise the rescue and relief work.
By last night, 1,100 tents, 100 tons of grain, 5,000 quilts and a batch of clothing and medicine have been transferred to the quake-hit areas by local departments of civil affairs.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200307/23/eng20030723_120811.shtml   (457 words)

  
 china yunnan airline - Best Travel!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Deadly quake rocks China's Yunnan just days ahead of Real Madrid visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Just days before David Beckham and the footballing superstars of Real Madrid arrive in China's Yunnan province, a deadly earthquake has rattled the area, damaging thousands of houses.
The Xinhua news agency and local seismological officials said the tremer was clearly felt in Kunming although there were no immediate reports of damage there.
In Dayao, some 14,115 houses were damaged, an official surnamed Zhao at the Emergency and Rescue Section of the Yunnan Seismological Bureau said.
www.terradaily.com /2003/030722021841.bzl8ke65.html   (290 words)

  
 DaVinci: Regional> Asia> China> Yunnan> Lijiang
Foundation (SIF) as one of the village schools in Northwest Yunnan, China, in...
This scribe was one such unfortunate person who had to go to Jade Snow Mountain in Lijiang, Yunnan province of China, to touch snow.
Yunnan Adventure (14 days) - Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangrila and Hong Kong; prices start at $2,299 ($150 off per person).
www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/China/Yunnan/Lijiang   (211 words)

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