Anning county, Kunming, Yunnan province has set its gross domestic product (GDP) growth target at around 10 percent for 2022.
In the Yangzonghai Resort, a 40-minute drive from Kunming, nearly 100 acres of snapdragon flowers are in bloom and fill the mountain air with sweet scent and color.
The China-Laos Railway is bringing historic opportunities for Yunnan province to integrate into the China-Laos economic corridor and promote economic and social development in cities along the railway.
Yunnan province recently held a commencement ceremony for 129 key projects with accumulative investment topping 60.4 billion yuan($9.56 billion).
Kunming Dounan Flower Market sold 10.26 billion fresh cut flowers in 2021, up 25.05 percent year on year. Its trade volume hit 11.2 billion yuan (about $1.8 billion), up 36.8 percent year on year.
A herd of wild elephants that trekked northward for months last year was recently spotted entering Wild Elephant Valley in Yunnan province's Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of Kunming stood at 722.3 billion yuan in 2021.
