This summer, Kunming will have its first ever direct flights to Moscow. At 17:30 on March 10, Beijing time, an Airbus A330-300 landed at Kunming Changshui Inter-national Airport, marking the official delivery of Lucky Air’s first wide-body aircraft. The planeis expected to fly the new Kunming-Moscow…

Recently, the Belt and Road Conference on Yunnan Enterprise Investment in Southeast Asia Promotional Conference was held in Kunming. The conference was sponsored by the Yunnan Provin-cial Energy Investment Group and Southeast Asia Deloitte &Touche LLP. It was co-organized by the Yunnan Newspaper…

Graphene can enable a deaf-mute to “speak”. It is hoped the “Smart Graphene Artificial Larynx”, invented by a research group headed by Professor Ren Tianling at the Micro-electronics Institute of Tsinghua University, will solve the difficult problem of allowing deaf-mutes to…

Recently, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden unexpectedly discovered two Belomyspear-sonii in a rain forest ravine. As the name suggests, Belo-myspearsonii, or ‘hairy-footed flying squirrels’, have a tuft of long hair on each…

Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam are rich in forest resources, and Yunnan Province shares a combined border of 4,060 kilometres with the three countries. Over the past several years, Yunnan has constantly improved ex-change mechanisms and strengthened cooperation with the three countries regarding the cross-border…

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently discovered fossils of a new species of ancient fish in Qu-jing City, Yunnan Province. The fish,…

Kunming is dubbed "Flower City". Recently, Begonia flowers and cherry blossoms have come into full bloom at Yuantongshan Park in downtown Kunming.…