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Brief Introduction to Yimen County


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Yimen County is located at the junction between Yuxi, Kunming and Chuxiong. It is 94 km from Kunming and 145 km from Yuxi. With a total area of 1,526.57 square kilometers, Yimen governs Longquan Sub-district, Liujie Sub-district, Lüzhi Town, Pubei Township, Shijie Township, Tongchang Township and Xiaojie Township.

It is endowed with abundant wind, water, solar energy resources as well as forests, minerals and other natural resources. The complex topography crisscrossed by mountains and valleys has formed a three-dimensional climate of “Four Seasons on One Mountain and Different Weather in Ten Miles”. Yimen also has a great ecological environment and high biodiversity. Liujie Town is set up as a nature reserve for incense cedar, and the Huashan pine forest in Tongchang has been selected by the provincial forestry department as the seed production base of Huashan pine in Yunnan. More than 100 kinds of wild animals are active in the high mountains, valleys and plains. More than 300 kinds of wild mushrooms can be found in the forests. Of these, 70 kinds of edible wild mushrooms are famous throughout the province for their wide variety, large quantity, high quality and fantastic taste. Yimen is regarded as “the Hometown of Mushrooms”, and listed as a Yunnan Wild Edible Mushroom Trading Center. There are abundant reserves of copper, iron, cobalt, tungsten, lead, zinc and uranium, as well as kaolin (porcelain clay), gypsum, marble, granite and limestone. 

Yimen County has been named a National Pilot Demonstration County for Circular Economy, Architectural Ceramics Production Base in Southwest China, Yunnan Wild Edible Mushroom Trading Center, Industrial County for Key Cultivation in Yunnan Province, Characteristic Industrial Base for High-tech Development, Demonstration Base for New Industrialization Industries, High-tech Industrial Development Zone, National Ecological Demonstration Zone, National Sanitary County, National Garden County, County of Chinese Couplet Culture, Provincial Civilization County and Provincial Safety County.

 


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