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unusual facts about Southwest China



Beijing West Railway Station

It is the Beijing terminal for most trains leaving the city for destinations in western and southwestern China, including Xi'an, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lhasa and Urumqi.

Common slug snake

The common slug snake (Pareas monticola) is a species of snake found in Northeast India (Sikkim, Assam, Darjeeling; Arunachal Pradesh (Mokto - Tawang district)), Vietnam, and Southwest China (Tibet, Yunnan).


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Ertan

Ertan Dam, an arch dam on the Yalong River in southwest China

Margary Affair

As part of efforts to explore overland trade routes between British India and China province, junior British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was sent from Shanghai through southwest China to Bhamo in Upper Burma, where he was supposed to met Colonel Horace Browne.

R. gigantea

Rosa gigantea, a rose species native to northeast India, northern Myanmar and southwest China