Yunnan City town village

Baoshan, Yunnan

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Baoshan is a prefecture-level city in western Yunnan province
of the People's Republic of China.

Demography

The prefecture has about 2.5 million inhabitants.

Administrative divisions

The city-prefecture of Baoshan has jurisdiction over five subdivisions - a district and four counties:

Longyang District - 隆阳区 Lóngyáng Qū
Shidian County - 施甸县 Shīdiàn Xiàn
Tengchong County - 腾冲县 Téngchōng Xiàn
Longling County - 龙陵县 Lónglíng Xiàn
- 昌宁县 Chāngníng Xiàn

Geography

It is located between the border of the Myanmar and the river Mekong, in a cattle-rearing area.

Climate

The average temperatures for the town of Baoshan go from +9°C for the coldest month to +21,5°C for the hottest month, with an annual average of +16,3°C .

Transport

Baoshan lies on the road from Ruili to Kunming, a road partially upgraded to a four lane highway in places.

Baoshan Airport has daily flights to and from Kunming. Flight time is 20 minutes.

Nanhua County

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Nanhua County is located in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Mouding County

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Mouding County is located in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Mojiang Hani Autonomous County

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Mojiang Hani Autonomous County is located in Prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Mile County

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Mile County is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Midu County

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Midu County is a county in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture located in southern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China.

Mengzi County

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Mengzi County is a , in the southeast of Yunnan, , in the prefecture about 12 miles east of Gejiu. It is situated in the center of a fertile valley basin on a plateau 1000 meters above sea level.

Government

The county seat is in Wenlan town.

Food

The Mengzi region is well-known for a dish called ''guoqiao mixian'' , made with long rice-flour noodles.

History

In the 19th century, Mengzi was a trading centre for commerce between the interior of Yunnan and the Hanoi-Haiphong area of Vietnam.

In 1886, a convention chose Mengzi to be the center of trade in Yunnan province for importing and exporting goods via Tongking in Vietnam. Facilities for this opened 2 years later.

Communications were inconvenient: goods were shipped to Hekou on the Vietnamese border by junk, transferred by small craft to Manhao, and then taken 60 km by pack animal to Mengzi. Despite these difficulties, Mengzi was an important port of entry into both Yunnan and western Guizhou provinces, and in 1889 it was opened to foreign trade as a treaty port. Most of this foreign trade was in tin and opium. Its main exports were tin and opium, and the main imports were mostly textiles and tobacco.

As a trading center, the city gradually began to lose its importance beginning from the early 20th century. The importance of Mengzi was ended by the construction of the French railway from Haiphong to Kunming in 1906–10. This railway bypassed Mengzi, but in 1915 a branch line was built via the town to the Gejiu tin mines. Apart from a brief respite during the early days of World War II, the town of Mengzi has, nevertheless, steadily declined in importance ever since.

Gejiu became a county in 1913, and a city in 1951. With the improvement of communications and transportation between cities of Gejiu and Kaiyuan and the other counties nearby, plus the development of trade between southwestern China and the countries of Southeast Asia, Mengzi's ties have increasingly strengthened with Gejiu and Kaiyuan. The whole area has become a border economic centre. In addition to tin, the county's natural resources include coal, manganese, lead, zinc, and antimony.

When Japanese troops drove Beijing and Tianjin university professors, students, and administrators out of those cities, and then later out of Changsha as well, the academics made their own long march to Yunnan Province. They first established themselves in Mengzi, but after a year or so moved on to the provincial capital, Kunming. This was Lianda, or the Southwest Associated Universities.

Recently, the prefectural government has moved from nearby Gejiu to Mengzi. New wealthy suburbs and large government offices have sprung up as a result, but much of the poverty remains, creating a large wealth gap within the city.

Economy

Like nearby Gejiu, mining, mostly of tin, is a large part of its economy.

Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County

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Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County is located in Prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Mengla County

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Mengla County is located in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan , China.

Menghai County

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Menghai County is located in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan , China.

Tea

See Menghai tea factory

Malong County

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Malong County is located in Qujing Prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Malipo County

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Malipo County is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Maguan County

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Maguan County is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Luchun County

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Lüchun County is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Luxi County, Yunnan

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Luxi County is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Luxi City, Yunnan

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Luxi City is a county-level city in Yunnan, People's Republic of China.

It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. In 1996, Luxi was upgraded to a city.

Transport

*Luxi Mangshi Airport

Lushui County

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Lushui County is located in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County

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Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County is an , under the jurisdiction of Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan, .

Luoping County

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Luoping County is located in Qujing Prefecture, Yunnan, China.

The county of Luoping in eastern Yunnan are noted for its beautiful scenery in spring, when its fields of canola flowers are in full bloom, surrounding the area's mountains with a sea of golden flowers to spectacular effect.

Located near where Yunnan meets Guizhou and Guangxi, Luoping is about 240 kilometers east of Kunming. Not unlike the terraced fields of Yuanyang in southern Yunnan, Luoping's canola fields attract many photographers.

Luoping's golden beauty lasts until late June. During this high travel season for the county there are regular buses leaving from Kunming's bus stations on an almost hourly basis. Accomodations in Luoping range from cheap 10-yuan boarding houses to more expensive star-rated hotels.

Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County

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Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County is located in Prefecture, Yunnan, China.