While on a business trip in Yunnan, China, Chen Jie helped a Taiwanese tourist, Fei, take photos. During their casual conversation, they discovered they shared the same ancestral hometown, Puyuan, leading to the realization that they were long-lost relatives.
A study in 'Defence Industry Conversion in China' highlights Yunnan province's role as an "irreplaceable gateway" to Indochinese resources. It proposes Yunnan as a land-based lifeline for critical mineral supply, mitigating China's reliance on the Strait of Malacca and enhancing supply-chain resilience.
A farmer in southwestern China was bitten by a cobra, prompting his wife to suck out the venom, a method she saw on TV. Both were poisoned and hospitalized in Yunnan province, later recovering after receiving antivenom serum and other medical treatment.
Yunnan Province has released 42 measures across four key areas to encourage private investment, focusing on expanding investment fields, optimizing the business environment, supporting innovation, and strengthening resource guarantees to promote private capital's willingness and ability to invest.
Yunnan Province's 2025 Ecological Environment Status Report shows air quality among the best nationally, with over 98% good/excellent days. Major rivers and lakes also show excellent water quality, with key lakes like Dianchi reaching their best monitored levels.
A Chinese village director, Tian Ruliang, earned the nickname "Mud Buddha" after a photo showed him covered in mud while evacuating residents during heavy rainfall and a potential landslide in Shanghongyan Village, Yunnan province.
Yunnan Province has concluded its third college course teaching exhibition for "Introduction to the Chinese National Community." The event, which saw 198 teachers from 77 universities participate, awarded 82 finalists, aiming to enhance the course's quality and foster a stronger sense of national identity among students and faculty.
Yunnan Province completed 2678 public resource transactions totaling 82.096 billion yuan from January to April, with remote评标 becoming the primary method. Engineering projects dominated transactions.
The 2026 Yunnan Province Social Science Popularization Week launched in Zhaotong City, focusing on 'Advancing the 15th Five-Year Plan, Enhancing People's Well-being, and Opening a New Chapter for a Better Life.' The event features 341 key activities across the province until May 25th, aiming to bring social science knowledge to the grassroots.
Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking Thailand, Laos and southwest China’s Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit. The first goods train laden with durians from Thailand – China’s biggest source of the fruit – began winding its way north through Laos to China over the weekend, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday. More than 90 per cent of the world’s durian exports – worth about US$7.5 billion...
A severe hailstorm struck Kunming Changshui International Airport in southwestern China on Saturday, damaging aircraft and forcing flight cancellations. The storm affected over 110 aircraft, with visible damage to wings, cockpits and radomes. The airport operator described the weather as unusually severe convective weather with intensive thunderstorms and hail. Operations were still struggling to resume on Sunday.
A massive hailstorm hit Southwestern China's busiest airport on Saturday, grounding flights, damaging aircraft and stranding passengers. The storm affected runways, terminal roofs and more than 110 aircraft, with some jets sustaining visible damage to wings, cockpits and radomes. Yunnan Airport Group said the airport was hit by unusually severe convective weather with intensive bursts of thunderstorms and hail.
Hong Kong won silver in the aquathlon team event at the Asian Beach Games in Sanya, Hainan Island, with a time of 1:02:35. The quartet of Bailee Brown, Wong Tsz-to, Hilda Choi Yan-yin and Mark Yu Shing-him finished behind China (1:01:44) with Japan taking bronze (1:03:54). Head coach Andrew Wright acknowledged the achievement despite noting lack of significant funding for the sport.
