The 2018 China Potato Congress opened in northeast Yunnan’s Zhaotong city on July 8. The 3-day conference focuses on the development of potato industry and its role in poverty alleviation.

Tourists show newly-picked fruit at a peach and plum plantation in Xinhua Township of Yuanmou County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 7, 2018.

The Dashanbao nature reserve provides winter habitat for the black-necked crane. The protected plateau and marshland occupies 19,200 hectares at altitudes between 2,200 and 3,300 meters.

At a Yunnan local wild mushroom market, express couriers were busy carrying and dealing with thousands of matsutake packages per day, in an effort to ensure the freshness of the Yunnan delicacy on the diners' table afar.

Simao Port is a national-level river port in Yunnan Province, and it is also China’s first port on the Lancang-Mekong international shipping network. Via the port, Yunnan produces could have access to all Mekong countries.

Good news! Dali is about to be linked to Kunming by bullet trains soon. Days later, Kunming and Dali citizens will be able to travel between the two cities in two hours. The 280-kilometer railway starts at Kunming Railway Station and ends at Dali Railway Station in west Yunnan, with a designed speed of 200km/h.

In the period of summer solstice, the lotus in Daguan Park of Kunming, the Spring City, has once again entered its annual blooming season. Every day, crowds of tourists and citizens would come to the park to admire flowers.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to break new ground in major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, with the guidance of the thought on diplomacy of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.

On June 21, Starbucks opened its first coffee origin store in Pu’er, a city in southwest Yunnan province famed for its eponymous fermented tea.

According to preliminary statistics, 456 projects were signed, with contract amount reaching 807.937 billion yuan. And a total of 800,000 people visited the Expo.

A total of 456 contracts involving more a total of more than 800 billion yuan ($123.6 billion) have been signed during the fifth China-South Asia Expo that concluded Wednesday in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

A subway train themed on Tang Dynasty (618-907) was launched in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Monday. The pictures and cultural symbols painted on the train reflect the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Pictures taken by Yunnan Daily reporters on June 18 show the breath-taking summer landscape of the Baima Snow Mountain in northwest Yunnan's Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. As a national nature reserve, the mountain features glaciers, alpine lakes, meadows, rivers, wetlands and rich wildlife.

People visit the 5th China-South Asia Expo (CSA Expo) in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 18, 2018. The 5th CSA Expo and the 25th China Kunming Import and Export Commodities Fair is held here on June 14-20.

President Xi Jinping has stressed building an elite maritime force to resolutely accomplish various missions entrusted by the Party and the people.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off Thursday. But hey, here are some adorable players in Baima Snow Motain National Nature Reserve of Yunnan’s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture also have some wonderful performance in the sports field. Come to meet them!

The 5th CSA Expo and the 25th China Kunming import and export fair kicked off on Thursday. Themed “Integrating into the Belt and Road Initiative and Promoting Win-win Cooperation”, around 8,500 standard booths are set up within an exhibiting area of 190,000 square meters, over 40 percent of which are covered by foreign exhibits in the expo.

The First Seminar for Media Officials and Journalists from Mekong Countries kicked off in Kunming, Yunnan Province on June 12, with the theme of “one river, one family”. The nine-day training seminar drew in 17 media delegates from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

"The edible mushrooms can be cooked in many ways. For example, the fungus can be frozen to ensure crispiness and freshness.” Ouyang said, adding that bolete can be fried with beef fillet.

A lights and fireworks show takes place in Qingdao, the host city of the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, in east China's Shandong Province, June 9, 2018.

Children take part in a garbage classification game at a kindergarten in Langfang City, north China's Hebei Province, June 5, 2018, the World Environment Day.

To welcome the summit of 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, performers displayed different Chinese culture art forms via paper-cutting works, folk music, tea art, dough sculpture etc..

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, which runs from June 9 to 10 in east China's coastal city of Qingdao, occurs at a time when the world is in need of concerted action to address challenges and threats ranging from regional conflicts to spreading terrorism, from populism to unilateralism, and must advance economic globalization and improve global governance to benefit all.

At dusk on May 28, gorgeous clouds and sunset glow appeared in west Yunnan’s Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. Golden and dark blue clouds mixed into a hue, like a light that shone down to us from a different realm of existence.

The famed modern passenger train, known as the Madaraka Express, makes two trips between Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa daily. Madaraka is a Swahili word, meaning responsibility, power and governance. The train has attained an occupancy rate of over 95 percent.