Older Chinese consumers, especially those who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, are increasingly opening their wallets to spend on high-end travel options, travel operators said.

China's parcel delivery sector has set a record by handling more than 100 billion parcels this year by Wednesday, ranking top in the world for the eighth consecutive year, the industry's regulator, the State Postal Bureau of China said.

Ma Jiansong, president of the Chinese Medicine and Dai Ethnic Medicine Hospital in Ruili, Yunnan province, broke into a smile when he received a photo on Nov 13.

"It used to take me about one week to travel from Mohan to Kunming, but now it only takes more than 4 hours,...

The 1,035 kilometer China-Laos Railway, connecting Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province with the Lao capital of Vientiane, officially opened to traffic on the afternoon of December 3, 2021.

Workers at the Xiaoheishan nature reserve in Longling county, southwest Yunnan’s Baoshan city, captured a video of a giant squirrel foraging for food, while patrolling in the forest on December 1.

Laos' first ever high-speed railway receives blessing of religious groups on Dec 3 and is expected to deliver improved connectivity that will create more business opportunities and transform the landlocked country.

Yunnan province, once afflicted by HIV/AIDS, is gearing up to achieve the next significant milestone toward ending the epidemic through consolidated efforts in ramping up health education, testing and treatment.

Earlier this year, a herd of 15 roaming wild Asian elephants in Yunnan province made news worldwide when the animals migrated northward from Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture.

On a cool morning last month, Ai Zai, who grows corn and bananas in a village in Yunnan province on the Chinese border with Myanmar, hopped on a tricycle and started a two-hour journey to spray disinfectant in the area.

Yunnan, a Chinese border province, has a 4,060-km-long borderline. It is at the forefront of the fight against cross-border spread of COVID-19. Here, 153,000 people from all walks of life unite as one to guard the boundary.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has signed a State Council decree unveiling a regulation on new law-enforcement methods for individuals and corporations violating laws in the country's capital market.

A mechanism that protects river basins by compensating upstream areas for their environmental conservation efforts has promoted environmental protection and socioeconomic development, with the Chishui River in Southwest China being a prime example.

Police in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Nov. 28 detained 11 people suspected of being involved in illegally running gambling businesses or money laundering, and referred the case to procurators.

As winter approaches, the leaves of blueberries in planting base of Hefei, Anhui province have turned red, just like a huge carpet covering the hill.

The drastic fall in temperature these days has brought a booking peak for hot spring tours in Kunming, Yunnan province, and the weekend rooms of local hot spring hotels have been sold out.

When Geng Limeng, a 17-year-old in Ruili, Yunnan province, heard from her teacher on a September morning that regular offline classes would soon resume, she said she wanted to "fly back to the classroom immediately".

To make black-necked cranes live through the winter at ease, an electronic fence system has been installed by th...

Demographers have called for more efficient implementation of supportive measures to encourage births to address the country's dwindling population growth, as indicated in the recently released China Statistical Yearbook 2021.

Through 20 years of research, Xu Yongyan's team from Southwest Forestry University has successfully bred edible lilies suitable for red soil growth.

Zhang, an entomologist -- specializing in dragonflies -- with the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, embarked on his journey chasing this fascinating creature at the age of five.

A giant eagle was reported to have been trapped in a mud puddle of Mojiang county, southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city. On receiving the call, the forest police on duty rushed to the scene in a cement plant and rescued the eagle.

China's latest COVID-19 outbreak, which has spread to over 20 provincial-level regions since mid-October, is entering its final stage, health officials said on Nov 20.

A badge has played an important role in helping lost senior people return home. By scanning a quick response (QR) code on the plastic gadget, any helper with a smartphone can reach the emergency contact of the carrier immediately.

By making Galangpian, or crunchy pea slices, Nonghuan villagers in west Yunnan’s border city of Ruili have obtained a stable income amid the Coivd outbreaks over the past months.