Snow mountain landscape seen in Lijing City

Xinhua pictures taken on April 23 showed the lofty Jade-Dragon Snow Mountain in northwest Yunnan’s Lijing city.

Around 15 km north from the downtown Lijiang, the snow mountain is the one closest to the equator in the Northern Hemisphere. It is so called because its 13 peaks that form a dragon-like pattern.

Reporting by Wang Guansen; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue