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.