In every city, there is a building with an imprint on it. Hongta is a small town named after a red tower. Around this tower, the city below the hill has undergone great changes over a long course of time. 
The Bo people lived and multiplied in this beautiful and rich land more than 300 BC. This place has changed names many times, from "Yuyuan" in the Han Dynasty and "Xiuna" in the Song Dynasty, "Xinxing" in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and then from "Yuxi" in the Republic of China to today's Hongta (Red Tower). History has played a colorful role in this land. Yuxi Kiln stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Jingdezhen of Jiangxi Province and Jiangshan of Zhejiang Province, all famed for their exquisite blue and white porcelain. Huadeng Opera has been sung for more than seven hundred years while the rise of "New Huadeng" has established a position for Hongta as "the Pioneer of Huadeng Society". This is the birthplace of Nie Er, the people's musician and the composer of the national anthem "March of the Volunteers". The inheritance of thousands of years of farming civilization, derives from the world's longest festival -- the Rice Noodle Festival. In addition cultivation of high-quality flue-cured tobacco and the largest cigarette enterprise in Asia cements her position here as a famous land of Yunnan Tobacco. In recent years, Hongta District has been awarded the titles of National Garden City and National Sanitary City. It has become one of the first national food safety demonstration zones, the national "Chang'an Cup", a national safe district and is nationally recognized as a district of well-balanced development of compulsory education. It is also a national pilot city of the sponge city project, and a leisure and livable ecological city. The green and natural urban environment, diversified and harmonious cultural connotation and leisurely life atmosphere have made this town, named after the tower, become a famous ecological city and tourist resort for leisure and vacation.
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