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2 unusual facts about Yiliang County, Kunming


Sinocyclocheilus anophthalmus

It is a cave-dwelling, blind species only known from the Yiliang County, Yunnan, China.

West Hmongic

Northeast Yunnan Miao: 250,000 speakers in the counties of Yiliang of Zhaotong, Daguan, Zhaotong, Yongshan, Qiaojia, Wudin, Lufeng, Luquan, Chuxiong, Dayao, Yuanmou, Kunming, Anning, Fumin, Yiliang of Kunming, Yimen, Songming, Qujing, Dongchuan, Huize, Xundian, Xuanwei, Zhanyi, Malong, Weining, Hezhang, Zhijin, Puding, Wangmo, Shuicheng, etc.


1999 World Horticultural Exposition

The 1999 World Horticultural Exposition (昆明世博会) was an A1 category international garden festival as recognised by the International Association of Horticultural Producers in Kunming, China.

Air China

Some international routes operate from Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dubai, Hangzhou, Kunming and Xiamen.

Archimedes Patti

Archimedes L.A. Patti (1913–1998) was an American U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former Office of Strategic Services officer who headed OSS operations in Kunming and Hanoi in 1945.

Chengdu–Kunming Railway

In 1974, an ivory sculpture commemorating the completion of the Chengdu–Kunming Railway was presented as a gift to the United Nations and is displayed at the U.N. Headquarters in New York.

China Telecom

As of 2012, China Telecom has rollout estimated over 1,000,000 access points in over 30,000 buildings and facilities in over 250 major Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanning, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Dalian, Kunming, Wuhan, Chongqing and Xi'an.

Dounan

Dounan, Chenggong District, Kunming, China; location of Dounan Flower Market

Foreign relations of Burma

There are direct air flights to Taipei, as there are to some major cities in the People's Republic of China, including Kunming, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Gejiu

Coal for smelting is supplied to the city from nearby Kaiyuan to the north, located on the rail line to Kunming.

Hang Lung Group

Seeing the success of the Shanghai projects, the Group continued to expand its business to others parts of the Mainland such as Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, and Kunming.

History of Yunnan

In fact, between 1904 and 1909 the French had built the 885 km long Sino-Vietnamese Railway which ran from Hanoi to Kunming via Hekou, with an offshoot to Gejiu.

Japanese invasion of French Indochina

In early 1940, troops of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) moved to seize Longzhou in south Guangxi, where the eastern branch of the railroad from Hanoi reaches the border, and also tried to move west to cut the rail line to Kunming.

John Blofeld

Blofeld became a pupil of Hsu Yun but actually received training in Chan (Zen) meditation from Hsu Yun's pupils at a monastery near Kunming, Yunnan.

Jonathan Kearney

From 2005 to 2007 he was gallery director and curator of TC/G Nordica a large art gallery in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Kasikornbank

The bank branch network extends throughout Thailand’s 77 provinces, as well as internationally with five branches overseas in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Cayman Islands, Shenzhen and Chengdu and four representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming and Yangon.

Kunming Economic and Technology Development Zone

The KETDZ is 4 kilometers from the downtown Kunming, where the highways lead straight to the China-Laos border town of Mohan, the China-Vietnam border town of Hekou, and the China-Myanmar (Burma) border town of Ruili.

Malaysia Airlines fleet

This aircraft is used to fly short-to-medium-haul routes, such as Kunming, Beijing and Chennai.

Manhao

Located on the Red River, Manhao was a transhipment point of some significance prior to construction of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway in the early 20th century, as the shortest route between Kunming and French Indochina ran through it.

Music of Yunnan

It has since been revived, however, and its popularity among the younger generation is rebounding, especially in Chuxiong, Lijiang, Baoshan, Dali and Kunming.

Transport in Laos

The Fourth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge is under construction and is hoped to be completed by December 2012 linking Kunming to Bokeo, Laos and Chiang Rai.

Vultee P-66 Vanguard

Assembled P-66s were deemed unairworthy and abandoned at Karachi resulting in only 12 Vanguards on station at Kunming with the 74th Fighter Squadron of the 23rd Fighter Group, but this unit saw little action.

XX Bomber Command

In late 1944, Japanese offensive (codenamed Operation Ichi-Go) in China probed toward the B–29 and Air Transport Command bases around Chengtu and Kunming.

Yu-3 torpedo

By 1969, the 750 metre deep deepwater torpedo testing range was established with the help of over 80 enterprises and named as 750 Testing Range (750试验场) in Kunming, after the greatest simulated depth of the range, and a total of 4 sample torpedoes were produced.

Yu-7 torpedo

The first two prototype torpedoes were assembled in No. 874 Factory in December 1984 and were tested in the 750 Testing Range (750试验场) in Kunming in December 1985.

Yuantong

Yuantong Temple (圆通), the most famous Buddhist temple in Kunming, Yunnan province, China

Yunnan box turtle

In 2008, Kadoorie Conservation China, a department of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, together with the Kunming Institute of Zoology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered a small wild population.

In 2004, a living female appeared from the pet trade in Kunming; one year later, a male from the same source and again one year later another female were found there.

Yuxi–Mengzi Railway

When the Mengzi–Hekou Railway is completed, trains from Kunming, Yunnan's provincial capital, will be able to travel on standard gauge rail to Hekou, on the border with Vietnam.


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