Foreign trade in southwest China's Yunnan Province registered a 16.8-percent year-on-year growth in 2021, reaching 314.4 billion yuan (about 49.4 billion U.S. dollars), Kunming Customs said Jan. 19.

A wild Asian elephant calf is seen at the Wild Elephant Valley in the Xishuangbanna national nature reserve, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 2, 2022.

A flock of black-necked cranes fly over the Dashanbao Black-neck Crane Nature Reserve in Zhaotong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 14, 2022.

The Huayao people are a branch the Dai ethnic group, who mostly dwell in Gasa township of Xinping Yi and Dai autonomous county, central Yunnan’s Yuxi city.

Breakthroughs have been made at the beginning of 2022, such as the release of the Multi-level Rail Transit Plan for Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle and the opening of the Chengdu-Ziyang-Chongqing Expressway, etc.

The Pavilion Paper Art Garden, with splendid traditional Chinese art of paper cutting works, was set in celebrations of the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, is dubbed "ice city" due to its cold weather.

The world's largest stone Buddha statue, the Giant Buddha of Leshan, needs a repair, again.

Within 6.3 kilometers, the road section winds its way from the town to the mountain top, connecting the county seat and the Jing'anshao village.

Just after the arrival of the new year, a group of black bulbuls came to the cherry trees at a tea garden in Simao district, southwest Yunnan’s Pu'er city.

A snow removing machine, with workers on board, slowly pulls out of the garage of the Tiechanggou repairing team in Emin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 21, 2021.

The fascinating Hani terraced fields were covered by cloud and mist in winter in Yuanyang county, south Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), also dubbed as the "China Sky Eye," scientists have obtained accurate magnetic field strength in molecular cloud.

As the new year of 2022 arrived a few days ago, cherry blossoms were seen at the Pu’er tea displaying garden in southwest Yunnan's Pu’er city, decorating the site with a pink romance.

On New Year's Day, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement took effect in 10 of the 15 signatory countries, including China, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand and Japan.

Five places in Yunnan are among the 56 Chinese localities that have been entitled as the national natural oxygen bars, said a notice released by China Meteorological Administration on December 29.

The Qingtongxia-Zhongwei section in Ningxia of the Wuhai-Maqin expressway, linking Wuhai in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Maqin County in Qinghai Province, fully opened to traffic on Dec 29.

With the pandemic still raging, scientific and technological self-reliance took center stage, bringing in advances in frontiers like space exploration, quantum science, and the battle against COVID-19.

President Xi Jinping announced that China had officially designated its first group of national parks, including the Three-River-Source National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, and the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park.

China's Shenzhou-13 taikonauts Ye Guangfu and Zhai Zhigang have been out of the space station core module Tianhe to start extravehicular activities (EVAs), the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Dec. 26 evening.

As the temperature dropped sharply this week, many places in Yunnan province ushered in snowy days!

A photographer recently captured a group of photos where a rare golden-throated barbet was foraging persimmons in Jingdong Yi autonomous county, southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city.

The 2021 Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) China Sepaktakraw Open kicked off in Xishan District, central Yunnan’s Kunming city on December 23.