32 Facts About Yunnan

Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014.

Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast.

Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China.

Name "Yunnan" first referred to a place when the Han dynasty created Yunnan County near modern Xiangyun.

Gradually the king of Yunnan controlled more and more territory, and "Yunnan" became the common name of this area.

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Yunnan's seven captures of Meng Huo, a local magnate, is mythologized in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

An ancient overland pre-Tang trade route from Yunnan Province passed through Irrawaddy in Burma to reach Bengal.

Yunnan was inhabited by so-called barbarians not fully under the control of the Tang government and the route, though ancient, was not used much in pre-Tang times, and Chinese attempts to control the route were disrupted by the rise of Nanzhao.

Yunnan was settled by several local tribes, clans, and cultures before the 8th century.

In 738, the western Yunnan was united by Piluoge, the fourth king of Nanzhao, who was confirmed by the imperial court of the Tang dynasty as king of Yunnan.

Yunnan was a destination for Han Chinese during Yuan rule.

Yunnan ordered several Muslim rebels to be slowly sliced to death.

Yunnan was transformed by the events of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which caused many east coast refugees and industrial establishments to relocate to the province.

Yunnan is the most southwestern province in China, with the Tropic of Cancer running through its southern part.

Yunnan is at the far eastern edge of the Himalayan uplift, and was pushed up in the Pleistocene, primarily in the Middle Pleistocene, although the uplift continues into the present.

Yunnan has a generally mild climate with pleasant and fair weather because of the province's location on south-facing mountain slopes, receiving the influence of both the Pacific and Indian oceans, and although the growing period is long, the rugged terrain provides little arable land.

Yunnan is the source of two rivers, the Xi River and the Yuan River.

Yunnan is China's most diverse province, biologically as well as culturally.

Yunnan is home to, most notably, the southeast Asian gaur, a giant forest-dwelling bovine, the Indochinese tiger and the Asian elephant.

Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity.

Languages spoken in Yunnan include Tibeto-Burman languages such as Bai, Yi, Tibetan, Hani, Jingpo, Lisu, Lahu, Naxi; Tai languages like Zhuang, Bouyei, Dong, Shui, Tai Lu and Tai Nua; as well as Hmong–Mien languages.

Furthermore, Yunnan has a strong competitive potential in the fruit and vegetable industries, especially in low value-added commodities such as fresh and dried vegetables and fresh apples.

Yunnan is one of the regions in the world with the most abundant resources of wild edible mushrooms.

Flower industry in Yunnan province started to develop towards the end of the 1980s.

Yunnan is one of China's relatively undeveloped provinces with more poverty-stricken counties than the other provinces.

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Yunnan has trade contacts with more than seventy countries and regions in the world.

Yunnan established the Muse border trade zone along its border with Burma.

Yunnan is one of the major production bases of copper, lead, zinc, tin and aluminum in China.

Electricity industry is another important economic pillar of Yunnan, which plays a key role in the "West-East Electricity Transmission Project".

In higher education, Yunnan has one "National Key University"—Yunnan University in Kunming.

Road construction in Yunnan continues unabated: over the last years the province has added more new roads than any other province.

One of Yunnan's best known products is Pu-erh tea, named after the old tea trading town of Pu-erh .