Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all-out efforts to rapidly organize relief work and rescue the injure...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday night, leaving seven people dead and 88 injured, including 21 seriously, by 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. At least five of the dead were visitors to the popular tourist destination of Jiuzhaigou in the epicenter of Zhangzha town, Jiuzhaigou County.

Li Jie is a first-line manager at Heilongjiang Wandashan Dairy Company Limited. Over the past 16 years, she has witnessed the shift from raising free-range calves to more scientific breeding methods and how the domestic dairy industry has staged a comeback.

The 8th Axi Tiaoyue Folk Festival or Axi Moon Dance Festival will last through Aug. 15 during which Axi people, a branch of the Yi ethnic group, will hold different kinds of celebrations such as singing, dancing and wrestling.

Yunnan is a province with the most abundant biodiversity in China. In the 2015 management appraisal of national nature reserves, Yunlong Tianchi in west Yunnan was the only national nature reserve to be rated as “excellent” among the three national nature reserves in Yunnan Province chosen for random inspection.

In Longling County in west China’s Yunnan province, local oil-paper umbrellas are eminent as local girls, especially in Xiangda Township. Wang Biliang is an inheritor of Xiangda oil-paper umbrellas. He inherited from his ancestors the skills which now have become a necessary part of his daily life.

Photo taken on March 26, 2017 shows a glass production line of an enterprise in Shahe city, North China's H...

China and ASEAN nations on Sunday expressed satisfaction with the achievements made in their strategic partnership during the last 15 years and agreed to further enhance cooperation. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) made the pledge at a meeting in Manila.

"Our goal is for college graduates to comprise 70 percent of all recruits," an employee at the People's Liberation Army (PLA) recruitment department in Chengde, North China's Hebei Province, told the Global Times Wednesday, adding many other cities and provinces have all set similar targets.

The freight train X8074 from Prague arrives in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 4, 2017. The first freight train from Prague, the Czech Republic to Yiwu arrived at Yiwu west freight station at about 11:00 a.m. Friday after a 16-day journey. The train carried 82 containers of crystal products,

A dragon kiln is a traditional Chinese form of kiln, used for firing ceramics. The kiln first appears in China during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC), and many still remain in south Yunnan’s Jianshui County. We, Yunnan Daily reporters recently visited a century-old dragon kiln that is still functioning in Wanyao Village.

Aerial photos taken on July 28, 2017 shows the new look of Longquan Community of Longtoushan Township in Ludian County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. On Aug. 3, 2014, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Ludian County, killing more than 600 people and destroying about 80,000 homes.

Chinese defense ministry has urged India to immediately pull back the trespassing troops to the Indian side of t...

In western Yunnan, a biological corridor now connects the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve with the Longling Xiaohei Mountain Provincial Nature Reserve, plays a vital role in ecological preservation. In fact, the two nature reserves used to be relatively independent from one another.

Upon graduation from a college of traditional Chinese medicine in 1997, Guo Yubin began to work for Yunnan Baiyao Group. Over 20 years, he rose from a box packer to a production manager in charge of a key product module. He has witnessed firsthand how Yunnan Baiyao transformed itself.

A worker of a craft company makes wax molds of variegated copper-wares in Fumin County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 2, 2017. Originated from ancient Yunnan bronze-ware, the variegated copper-ware has unique materials and processing techniques with magnificent color and patterns.

According to the Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Yunnan’s total gross domestic product (GDP) totaled 644.781 billion yuan in the first half of the year. This is up by 9.5 percent year on year and is 2.6 percentage points higher than China’s national average.

Photo taken on Aug. 1, 2017 shows the tunnel boring machine (TBM) "Caiyun" in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Chinese made TBM, which has a 9.03-meter cutter head, was completed in Kunming on Tuesday and it will be used to drill a railway tunnel in the province.

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of th...

A postal staff shows a sheet of commemorative stamp for the 90th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Huainan City, east China's Anhui Province, July 31, 2017. China Post issued a new set of commemorative stamps to mark the 90th founding anniversary of PLA on Tuesday.

Yunlong County is nicknamed as “home of bridges”, and the 40-meter Tongjing Bridge was built in 1776. First built during the Qin and Han dynasties (221BC-220AD), the vine-bridge is made up of four 20m pine crossbeams, wild grapevine networks and broad planks

“I will never let it go, and you can never take it away from me. If only the wooden bowl were a lover that could be tucked into my bosom!” The lyric is cited from a Tibetan ballad, where the wooden bowl is compared to a lover.

Amid huge efforts to promote the development of soccer in China, a group of ethnic minority girls from a remote township in Southwest China's Yunnan Province are working hard to realize their dream of becoming professional players.

Five people were killed in a car accident in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Sunday....

China should use emerging information technology including cloud computing and Internet of Things to shore up the digital economy, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said. "The digital economy has enormous potential," Li said at a seminar on Monday, citing rapid growth in information consumption, mobile payments and e-commerce.