41 Facts About Kunming

Kunming, known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China.

Kunming has a nearly 2, 400-year history, but its modern prosperity dates only to 1910, when the railway from Hanoi was built.

Kunming's streets have widened while office buildings and housing projects develop at a fast pace.

Kunming has been designated a special tourism center and as such sports a proliferation of high-rises and luxury hotels.

The Kunming Yi lived in the neighbouring region of Erhai Lake during the Western Han dynasty.

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Some modern research states that the name "Kunming" of Kunming Yi is a cognate word of "Khmer" and "Khmu" that originally meant "people".

Kunming long profited from its position on the caravan roads through to South-East Asia, India and Tibet.

Decades later, Kunming began to be influenced by the West, especially from the French Empire.

Kunming was a communications center in early times and a junction of two major trading routes, one westward via Dali and Tengchong County into Myanmar, the other southward through Mengzi County to the Red River in Indochina.

Kunming reverted to county status in 1912, under the name Kunming, and became a municipality in 1935.

Kunming became a treaty port opening to foreign trade in 1908 and soon became a commercial center.

The city of Kunming was prepared as an alternate National Redoubt in case the temporary capital in Chongqing fell, with an elaborate system of caves to serve as offices, barracks and factories, but never utilised.

Kunming was to have served again in this role during the ensuing Chinese Civil War, but the Nationalist garrison there switched sides and joined the Communists.

Kunming became the northern and easternmost terminus of the vital war-supply line into China known as "The Hump'.

Until Mao Zedong's death, Kunming was still generally thought in much of the rest of the country as a remote frontier settlement and so it acted as a place up to then for the government to exile people who had fallen politically out of favor, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

Since the economic reforms of the mid-1980s, Kunming has enjoyed increased tourism and foreign investment, for instance investors from Thailand trace their ancestries back to Yunnan.

Kunming has 2, 585 hectares of lawns, trees and flowers, averaging 4.

Kunming's public focus is the huge square outside the now-demolished Workers' Cultural Hall at the Beijing Lu-Dongfeng Lu intersection, where in the mornings there are crowds doing taijiquan and playing badminton.

From 1 May to 31 October 1999, Kunming held the 1999 World Horticulture Exposition, with the theme of "Man and Nature—Marching Toward the 21st Century".

Prefecture-level city of Kunming has jurisdiction over 14 subdivisions; seven districts, one county-level city, three counties and three autonomous counties.

Kunming is bounded by Qujing City to the east, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture to the southeast and Yuxi City to the southwest, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture to the west and Zhaotong City to the northeast.

Kunming dialect is very similar to that of Sichuan and Guizhou but uses the third tone much less than standard Chinese.

Kunming Dialect is slowly dying due to it being 'informal' and is being replaced by Mandarin Chinese.

At the center of Yunnan and as its capital, Kunming is a transport hub for tourists heading to other parts of Yunnan such as Dali, Lijiang and Shangrila.

Conference and exhibition venues in Kunming include the Kunming International Convention and Exhibition Center and the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Hall.

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Haigeng National Training Center is located ten minutes away from Hongta on Dianchi near Kunming's award-winning Lakeview Golf Club and new condominium developments.

Kunming has three economic advantages over other cities in southwest China: significant natural resources, a large consumer market and a mild climate.

Kunming is a center of engineering and the manufacture of machine tools, electrical machinery, equipment and automobiles.

In July 2008, Kunming began to implement a program to transform the city's solar energy industry into a US$8.

Kunming receives an annual average sunshine of more than 2, 400 hours.

Kunming has air connections with several Chinese and Southeast Asian cities.

Lucky Air is a budget airline based in Kunming and operates scheduled services from Dali to Kunming and Xishuangbanna, and plans to expand to other areas of China.

Currently, the longest non-stop flight from Kunming is to Paris, France, operated by China Eastern Airlines since 18 December 2014.

In May 2010, Kunming began construction on its first urban rail lines, line 1 and 2 of the Kunming Metro.

Kunming will be the hub and terminus for the "Pan Asia High Speed Network" using high-speed trains to connect China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Kunming remains a major educational and cultural center in the southwest region of China, with universities, medical and teacher-training colleges, technical schools, and scientific research institutes.

Yunnan University, located in Kunming, is one of the largest and the most prestigious universities in China and is the only university in Yunnan province which has been developed into a "National Key University".

In October 1978, Kunming Branch was reestablished at the approval of the State Council.

Kunming currently maintains sister city agreements with the following foreign cities.

Kunming is headquarters of the 14th Group Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the two group armies that comprise the Chengdu Military Region responsible for the defense of China's southwestern borders with India and Myanmar, as well as security in Tibet.

Kunming has a pivotal role as a major conduit point in international drug trafficking as it is the closest major Chinese city to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia.