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Kunming
 Located
in the middle of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau,
Kunming is renowned as the City of Eternal
Spring. It has an elevation of 1,891 meters
with mountains surrounding it at three sides
and the Dianchi Lake bordering on its south.
It boasts pleasant climate all the year
round and ample sunshine and rainfall, turning
plants green and flowers in bloom in all
seasons. Kunming is a historically and culturally
famous city of China, the provincial capital
and the centre of politics, economy, culture,
science, technology and communications of
Yunnan. It covers an area of 15,427 sq.
km. Under its jurisdiction, there are 4
urban districts and 8 outskirt counties,
namely: Panlong, Wuhua, Xishan and Guangdu
Districts, and Anning, Chengong, Jinning,
Fumin, Songming, Yiling, Lunan and Luquan
Counties. The total population of Kunming
registers 3.3 million people, of which the
urban population is about one million. There
are 12 resident nationalities, including
the Han, Yi, Miao, Bai, Hui, Hani, etc.
residing and working in the city, and people
of all the 26 nationalities of Yunnan Province
can also be found here.
Kunming is a place where wonderful scenery
bestowed by nature and achievements of human
culture coexist. With a long history and
distinctive geographical features, Kunming
is endowed with numerous places of historical
interest and natural wonders.
Around Kunming City, there are 12 scenic
spots, namely: Huating Monastery, Taihua
Monastery, Sanqingge Pavilion and the Dragon
Gate, constructed in the Yuan, Ming and
Qing Dynasties and located at the Forest
Park of the Western Hills; the Grand View
(Daguan) Park and the 180-character Couplet,
famed in China for its length and beauty;
the Golden Palace (Jindian) made of bronze
during the Ming Dynasty; the Black Dragon
Pool and its reputed plum of the Tang Dynasty,
the cypress of the Song Dynasty, and the
camellia of the Ming Dynasty; the Bamboo
Monastery with its 500 Arhats, renowned
as "a pearl of sculptural art in the
East"; the Yuantong Monastery, constructed
in the Tang Dynasty and expanded in the
Song Dynasty; the Kunming Zoo and its 100
and more species of animals and a sea of
cherry flowers and flowering crabapples;
the Green Lake park and its limpid waters;
Tanghua Monastery of the Ming Dynasty and
its flowers and plants; the Haigeng Beach
with its fine sand; Anning Hot Spring -
the "Number One Hote Spring in the
World" and Caoxi Monastery and the
Stone Forest with its myriad of pinnacles
reputed as a natural wonder under heaven.
Kunming have attractive landscape, majestic
mountain ranges, rivers, caves, various
ethnic customes and historic heritage. It
is also enjoys the fame as the "kingdom
of animals" and the "kingdom of
plants". Hence Kunming attracts more
and more tourists from home and abroad.
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