TRAVEL&Culture
Lifestyle
More than 50 foreigners were on Dec. 15awarded for their short videos demonstrating the landscape, culture and people's lives in rural China.
Lifestyle
The 2021 Kunming Fashion Week kicked off on December 11 at Yunnan Radio and TV Station. Famed designers from 16 prefectures or cities of across Yunnan province brought their best collections to this event.
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Sticky rice is the main food for Dai people living in south Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture. The rice smells pleasant and tastes soft thanks to the mild climate and fertile soil near the tropical rainforest.
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Thanks to the relatively warm temperature, these days has seen clouds winding around tea hills in southwest Yunnan’s Pu'er city.
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Southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er was listed among the top 100 Chinese cities for health tourism at the recent 2021 China Culture and Tourism Summit Forum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province.
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CRRC launched the world's first panoramic sightseeing mountain tourist train tailored for Lijiang city, Yunnan province during the 2021 China International Rail Transit and Equipment Manufacturing Industry Exposition.
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Roasting tea by the fire pit is a traditional tea custom of Lahu ethnic minorities living in Zhenyuan Yi Hani and Lahu autonomous county, southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city.
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These days, the ginkgo trees on Wenlin Street are presenting their best in the spring city of Kunming, Yunnan province. Passers-by stop to take pictures against the golden branches.
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A villager picks coffee beans in Lisuo Village of Wa Autonomous County of Ximeng, southwest China's Yunnan Pr...
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On November 7, the release of “High-quality Development Cases and City Brands of Chinese Cities” sponsored by China Internet News Center was held in Beijing, and Pu’er City won the title of “City with the Most Investment Value".
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In early winter, taxodium trees, or ‘Zhongshanshan’ in Chinese pinyin, began to turn red along the shore of the Xingyun lake in Jiangchuan district, central Yunnan’s Yuxi city.
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As winter has arrived, the lotus faded away in the 5A-level tourist attraction of Puzhehe in Qiubei county, southeast Yunnan’s Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture.
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In winter, the blossom of buckwheat flowers is blanketing the mountains in Ximeng Wa autonomous county, southwest Yunnan’s Pu'er city.
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A camel team marched in the Kubuqi desert on November 29.
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A trial ride on the China-Laos Railway was launched for journalists on November 26. The train, which is expected to officially open to traffic in early December, gained global attention these days.
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The time-lapse video shows the starry sky in Yunnan province, southwest China.
Lifestyle
The documentary, One Cup, A Thousand Stories, features a 75-year-old entrepreneur's return from the United States to seek his roots in the Tibet autonomous region, revisiting sites along the Tea Horse Road.
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In Eryuan County in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, there is a scenic village surrounded by waters and trees known as Liyuan Village. With more tourists being lured to this place by its ecological beauty, the income of each household in the village has also seen a considerable rise.
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Zhao Jinhui, Datouyu Restaurant Manager, opened this restaurant in 1998. The speciality of the restaurant is fish cooked in copper hotpot.
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The long-awaited China-Laos Railway is about to open to traffic. What delicacies can we taste in central Yunnan’s Yuxi city?
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Originated in Jiangcheng Hani and Yi autonomous county, southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city, “Paka” is from Hani languge meaning “old leaves” in mandarin.
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Despite bearing a history of over 200 years, almost as old as Peking Opera, Yunnan Opera -- native to southwest China's Yunnan Province -- is perhaps known to only a few people.
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A few days ago, the 4th Kunming Camellia Cultural and Creative Design Competition announced the finals winners, including two pieces of Pu'er intangible heritage handcrafts.
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Heating control holds the key in grilling Erkuai. The rice cake will easily get burned at high heat, while the gentle heat will be time consuming. In Erkuai grilling, the rice pieces need to be flipped constantly for even heat.
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Affected by the third cold wave of this winter, the Jiaozi Snow Mountain presented a beautiful rime landscape on November 23.