The badly paid Kachin workers at the mines feel left out.China wants to turn Yunnan into the country's biggest domestic tourist destination and has built a big airport at Kunming.
Today, though, Kunming doesn't feel all that far at all from Shanghai or Beijing.Back to top >>ThursdayTHE town of Lijiang lies northwest of Kunming.
The attack in Kunming in March appeared to be the work of extremist Uighurs, who are a mostly Muslim ethnic minority from the western region of Xinjiang.
It has recently signed agreements to build new lines in Laos and Thailand, while it extends its network from Kunming to the China-Laos border.
We don't have to here".The Kunming police, like the most liberal health-care officials in western countries, talk much of the need for community care and counselling once the inmates return home, as well as education efforts at schools.
Some 400 drug-dealers are executed each year in the province: national and international anti-drug days are marked by an orgy of public condemnations in Kunming stadiums, followed by swift execution in private.
Luo Chun, a professor at Yunnan University, reckons his institution's new campus in Chenggong district is five times the size of its old one in the centre of Kunming.
On this definition only about 15 cities qualify, and they do not include Kunming.
By the end of this decade it is likely to have risen by 50%.There will, however, be no mushrooming of shanty towns along the shore of Dian Lake, Yunnan's largest and the one-time pride of Kunming (ill-regulated urban growth has since turned it so toxic that its water is deemed unfit even for industrial use).
Similar forces have driven up the prices for Chinese housing and artworks.In this section Hunting down the hoarders Caterpillar fungus, the new gold Politics of hate Beating the drum Raspberries all round No paradise, but better than hell The adventures of SuperGayus Freedom from fear ReprintsIn Kunming a recent shortage of diesel has brought unexpected respite to rising prices for food staples.
