Chuxiong＇s Medicine Boom

YUNNAN Baiyao, a white medicinal powder produced by the Yunnan Laoboyun Pharmaceutical Company, is well known for its miraculous treatment of hemorrhages, wounds and bruises. The Yi ethnic minority group of Chuxiong, Yunnan Province discovered it some 300 years ago.     

A City on the Edge of the Earth

A century ago, Briton George Forrest visited Gaoligong Mountain, never dreaming hewould find such a green heaven. In almost 30 years of flora gathering, Forrest contributed more than 100,000 herbaceous specimens to the British Museum, drawing world attention to this remote and wild gene treasury on China's south-western border.     

Deqen：Shangri-la on Earth

MORE than 60years ago, B r i t i s h writer James H i l t o n ' s novel LostHorizon described Shangri-la as a dream-like Utopia, Hollywood adapted the novel into a film, and ever since the name Shangri-la has been famous worldwide. Many people come to China, Nepal, India and related areas looking for this paradise.Deqen is Tibetan for "auspicious place." It is the only Tibetan     

Small City in the Mountains

CHENZHOU is a small scenic city in the mountains and a major stop on the Beijing-GuangzhouRailway. The recently opened Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and National Highway No. 107 pass through the city, and it is only a four hour drive to Guangzhou and Changsha. Since opening of the Guangdong-Hunan segment of the     

Greater Beijing in Tongzhou

At just 12 kilometers from the East Third Ring Road.Tongzhou is one of Beijing‘s closest suburban districts.On an inspection tour in late 2002.top Beijing Municipality leader Liu Qi defined Tongzhou as“…neither an outer suburb,nor a satellite city.but a new urban district.”Work is currently underway to make it just that .Following implementation of the Greater Beijing Strategy.the capital is to expand into its periphery and so relieve the high density in its downtown area.One way of achieving this is to extend the 50-kilometer Chang an Avenue from Shijingshan District to Tongzhou Distric.