In the sunshine, the feather of blue-tailed bee-eaters looks as bright as gold. That’s why people called them one of the most beautiful birds in China.

15 Asian elephants have recently kept heading for the north, entering Ershan County of Yunnan’s Yuxi City for the first time, only 120 kilometers away from the capital city, Kunming.

Now, Yuan’s hybrid rice is planted in over 60 countries and regions, including India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, USA, Brazil, Madagascar and others. The total coverage exceeded 7,000,000 hectares.

When an earthquake of magnitude 3.2 shook Yangbi Yi autonomous county of Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, on May 18, all schools launched their emergency plans and evacuated students safely.

Recent online photos show white egrets foraging in the Willow Park of Mile City, southeast Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

At 7:00 am in the morning, senior three student Cheng Yiting started to have classes in the blue tents at a quake-relief settlement site in Yangbi No.1 Senior High School.

May 18 is the International Museum Day. Yunnan Provincial Museum launched a non-profit photography exhibition on endangered animals, which is themed as “The disappearing world——Their Future and Ours”.

Zhang Sichun, head of the livestorck rearing and fishery station at the Xingyun lake in Yuxi’s Jiangchuan District, were recently busy with the incubation of the bighead carp, an aboriginal fish species at the lake.

Chala, a village perched on a mountain on the eastern side of the Nujiang Valley in Gongshan county in northern Yunnan province, once largely relied on subsistence farming. Now, it is thriving on a rural tourism boom.

Roses and other flowers sold well on this special Chinese Valentine’s Day, and the marriage registration offices of the Xishan and Chenggong districts issued 191 marriage certificates for newlyweds.

Around 150 million butterflies emerged on Thursday in a valley in southwest China's Yunnan Province, making it the largest surge of butterflies here in a decade.

Walking into Shuhe Ancient Town, one can see the traditional residences of Naxi people stand in gracefully disorder along the streets and gurgling stream flow through the town. It makes one feel cozy and relaxed.

After amassing poverty-curbing know-how for decades, China has expertise to share, a panel of global speakers said at a forum that opened in Yunnan province on Tuesday.

In Hekou Yao Autonomous County, south Yunnan's Honghe prefecture, the peacock flower has entered its blooming season, blanketing treetops on the street with its flaming red flowers.

These are the hometown scenes with which Li Shuixian was familiar in her childhood. As a painter, Li wants to have them preserved, and she thus kicked off her long artistic creation of vivid farmer portraits.

The other day, a number of open-bill storks (Anastomus oscitans) arrived to look for food not far away, forming a harmonious picture of human and nature.

In the recent years, good eco environment has allowed flocks of the white birds to inhabit around the lake, forming a harmonious picture of human and nature.

In the Azheke village, south Yunnan’s Honghe Yi and Hani Autonomous Prefecture, early summer is a bustling season, for locals in Hani costumes are busy with rice transplanting.

As the temperature began to rise in south Yunnan’s Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, a group of 15 wild elephants came to bath in the Yuan river to ward off the heat the other day.

A total of 845,697 foreigners were living on the Chinese mainland in 2020. The coastal province of Guangdong has the largest number of overseas residents at about 418,000, followed by Yunnan province and Shanghai.

The Erhai Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in Yunnan province. To ensure Erhai’s water quality and safety, a panel of water treatment specialists from Shanghai Jiaotong University settled near the lake.

Twenty years ago, Zhang Guimei encountered a teenage girl sitting in a daze on the side of a road in Huaping county, Yunnan province, with a sickle in one hand and a broken straw basket at her side.

“Our market team sold more than 9000 kilos potatoes by live streaming today, and they have been delivered to every customer everywhere in China,”said a network anchor in west Yunnan's Eryuan county on May 6.

During the May-Day holiday, many citizens in Kunming, Yunnan province, were attracted by the unique and innovative graffiti when passing by.

Starting in 2019, Chinese conservationists have found 56 kinds of endemic fish in middle and lower reaches of the Nujiang River, including the percocypris retrodorslis, the gagata dolichnema and others.