But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province.
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In particular, Yunnan Baiyao, a high-performing pharmaceutical maker, is on the cusp of Fab 50 consideration.
The spark, though, came from Li Guanlu, president of the Yunnan Education College in Kunming.
Earlier this year an American tourist blogged about a fake Apple store in China's southern Yunnan province.
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Dams are springing up on Myanmar's rivers, to generate hydropower to keep the lights burning in Yunnan.
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Li last visited the hospital in summer 2007, and he stayed in his hometown in Yunnan province.
The landslide hit the Tiantou Primary School and nearby houses in Yunnan province, southern China, on Thursday.
The birds in Xizhou, a charming town in Yunnan Province in extreme southwestern China, had no such restraints.
More than 730 people were injured after the quakes hit Yunnan and Guizhou provinces on Friday, state media say.
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Both species grow exclusively in Yunnan province -- now the focus of an extensive re-planting campaign organized by FFI.
He managed to stop the cutting of virgin forest (and the destruction of golden monkey habitat) in Yunnan province.
"I can't live in Beijing, " says Luo Xu, who was born in Yunnan.
They concentrated on Yunnan Province where Sino Forest claims to have purchased 200, 000 heactares of standing timber from one specific company.
The discovery was made in the Yunnan Province, China, and is being considered as major breakthrough in the study of insect evolution.
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China's Xinhua news agency quoted officials in Yunnan as saying 6, 650 houses had been destroyed in the province and 430, 000 others damaged.
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Officials realized that the Net would prove "invaluable" for lifting the economy and education of a landlocked province like Yunnan, Hedin says.
Yunnan wants to see a railway going all the way to Singapore.
The Beijing News applauds Yunnan's decision and hopes that other parts of the country will "accomplish this historic task as soon as possible".
Elsewhere in China, biogas projects have proven more popular than in Yunnan, where colder temperatures generally require a greenhouse to cover the units.
The refugees who were deported had been living in makeshift camps in Yunnan since June 2011, the group said in a statement.
The worst water shortage in more than a century has hit the country's southwest, in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces in addition to Yunnan and Guangxi.
Home to many of China's 56 ethnic minorities, the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan is known for its diversity in food, dress, language and geography.
"Roads are blocked and rescuers have to climb the mountains to reach hard-hit villages, " Li Fuchun, head of Yunnan's Luozehe town, was quoted as saying.
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This three-year programme is set in six counties of Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi Provinces, identified as the most vulnerable in terms of food security conditions.
It is Shuncheng Jie, the Muslim quarter and one of very few old streets left in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan in the far south-west.
The minorities population of Yunnan is among the biggest in China.
Now Yunnan is giving the process a Chinese touch: a law is being drafted that will render community leaders responsible if their charges go back to drugs.
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Five thousand inhabitants of Nanhua country in Yunnan Province had no choice but to leave their homes in mountainous areas and set up camp near streams in a lowland region.
In international news, China yesterday helped facilitate an agreement between Burmese and ethnic Kachin rebel leaders in southwest Yunnan to continue holding talks following weeks of heavy fighting, Xinhua reports.
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