Yunnan

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Yunnan () is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the southwestern part of the country.

It is bordered by Vietnam, Laos and Burma and includes people of various ethnic backgrounds (25 national minorities). A predominantly mountainous region, Yunnan remains one of the poorest provinces in China, despite the development of rice, cocoa, coffee, tea, spirulina and tourism production. GDP rose from 400 billion yuan in 2006 to 1486 billion yuan in 2016.

Geography

Situation
Yunnan Province is located in southeastern Tibet, south Sichuan, southwestern Guizhou and west Guangxi, as well as northwestern Vietnam, northern Laos and northeastern Burma.

Yunnan has landscapes of great diversity, separated from the arid plateaux of Tibet in the north by the Hong La Pass () to the tropical forests of Xishuangbanna and including the mountain range of the Cangshan Mountains. A predominantly agricultural province with very fertile land (the "red land" of Yunnan) and a generally mild climate, Yunnan exports a very wide variety of fruits and vegetables.

Several important rivers cross Yunnan, including:
Yangzi Jiang (or blue river);
Mekong ();
Red River ()
the Salouen ().

Its capital, Kunming, is located in a bowl at about altitude, and surrounded by rice fields on floors (see Hani). It is nicknamed "the lake", especially because of the lake that regulates its temperature. It's the only metropolis in Yunnan - It counts more than . Other cities are sparsely populated.

Natural resources

Yunnan abounds in natural resources. The waters of the mountains are very pure in the north, the water of Lijiang is naturally light and sweet.

Fauna and flora
Next to the rainforest, Yunnan is characterized by its wide biogeographical and specific diversity with paleoendemism. Yunnan is home to more than 200 fossil-bearing sedimentary basins documenting the evolutionary history of biodiversity, monsoon development and regional elevation changes, and includes a subtropical forest of evergreen conifers, classified as one of China's most flowering endemic centres.

The province is known as the paradise of plants and animals. It has more tropical, subtropical, temperate and cold plant species than any other Chinese province. These are both old local species and species imported from abroad. Among Chinese higher plant species, can be found in Yunnan.

The climate of the Tibet plateau in Xianggelila district, in the north of the province, does not allow fruit or rice production, so they are brought from other parts of the province. On the contrary, in the southwest, in the district of Xishuangbanna, the climate too