“Dongfeng Square has become more beautiful and we feel very comfortable when walking here.” a citizen in Yuxi Municipality, Yunnan Province said. 　　“The playground is waterlogged as soon as it rains. After Dongfeng Square is reconstructed, people wouldn’t be worried about the waterlogging any more when their children go to play on the playground even it rains.” Mr. Zou Wenkun, head of Yuxi No. 2 Kindergarten said happily.

In recent days, the opening ceremony of Duan Qichang Studio of National Famous Experts in Traditional Chinese Medicine was held by Yuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. 　　Yuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital actively organized to apply for the project of Duan Qichang Studio of National Famous Experts in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2016. The project was approved by the State Traditional Chinese Administration by the end of 2016. 　　Mr. Duan Qichang graduated from Yunnan Traditional Medicine Institute in 1962 and was elected as the academic inheritor of Mr. Li Zhuming in Febrile Disease in South Yunnan. Mr. Duan Qichang once acted as deputy president, botanic physician, director of the hospital academic commission before his retired. He was employed as clinical part-time professor of Yunnan Traditional Medicine Hospital in 1999. He is a well-known medicine expert who is good at febrile disease, spleen disease, stomach disease and tumour. 　　The studio would further inherit and popularize the academic views and experience of national famous experts in Chinese medicine to promote the development of Yuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine. 　　Source：http://www.yxdaily.com

On April 19th, 2017 First BRICKS Employment Working Group Meeting was held by the world blue lake--- Fuxian Lake. Mr. You Jun, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, Mr. Gao Feng, Deputy Governor of Yunnan Province, Ms. Deborah Greenfield, Deputy Director-general for Policy of International Labour Organization attended the opening ceremony and addressed the meeting.

On February 20th, 2017, five original songs of Huayao Dai People in Xinping County including The Migration, As Beautiful as Plantain Heart, Early Spring in Our Hometown etc. were played on CCTV music channel, which was the very first time for Huayao Dai folk songs to be staged on CCTV. 　 　 　　The original music group of Xinping Huayao Dai was invited to Beijing on October 13th, 2016, to be part of the show The Beauty of Chinese Music. Finally 5 songs were chosen, which are all originally created by Huayao Dai People in Xinping and themed on love story, migration, making toast etc, illustrating the essence of their culture and unique charm of their music. The six performers are all Huayao Dai people, and three of them are farmers who had no professional training background but taught themselves and practiced to be good at singing out of passion for music. 　　Xinping is honored as “the Hometown of Huayao Dai”, for its unique minority culture and rich tourism resources. This broadcast in CCTV is quite a good way to promote Xinping Huayao Dai culture to the world and bring about significance to the development of Xinping tourism. 　　Source：www.yuxinet.cn 　　On February 20th, 2017, five original songs of Huayao Dai People in Xinping County including The Migration, As Beautiful as

In mid-February, each enterprise in Jiangchuan Longquan Industrial Park was busy running production, under the main guidance line of "Hard Work, Great Production, Booming Industry" , focusing on five major industries including biological medicine, high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials, electronic information and modern service industry. Last year, enterprises in the park realized gross value of industrial output RMB 971 million, growing up by 31.5%; Investment in fixed assets was RMB 798 million, growing up by 93.7%; And total investment amounted to RMB 1.028 billion, with an increase of 92.1%. As a transforming and upgrading industry demonstration park, and a new-industry concentrated area, this park produced a new model of city fusion. 　　 　　Source：www.yuxinet.cn

A global promotion event presenting Yunnan Province will take place on Feb 20th, at the blue hall of ministry of foreign affairs. Foreign minister Wang Yi will attend the activity and make a speech about Yunnan. 　　 　　This event will begin with video presenting the beauty and development of Yunnan to all representatives from foreign embassies in China, international NGOs, business circles, experts and presses. Afterwards, foreign minister Wang Yi’s speech about Yunnan, followed by Chen Hao and Ruan Chengfa’s speeches. 　　After the promotion, all participants will visit the exhibition about the image of Yunnan 　　At 6 pm, a buffet with Yunnan characteristics will conquer the taste buds of all guests. 　　Source: www.yunnan.cn

The annual celebration of New Year’s Market and Rape Flower 　　Cultural Tourism Festival will be held in Tadian and Fuliangpeng of E'shan County from February 4 to 6, 2017. 　 　 　　It is reported that the activities include: Sacrifice to Dragon Ritual, Inviting Flower-drum Goddess and Sacrifice to the Drum Ceremony, Inviting Contest of Mountain Bike Cycling, Photo Contest themed on rape flowers and the celebration, Media Works Contest, the Last Stitch Ceremony of Chinese longest Yi Embroidery Work, Yi Culture Seminar , Dragon Dance, Flower-drum Dance, Cock Game, Long Street Banquet, Fireworks Show, etc. The Celebration of New Year’s Market, also known as the New Market Festival, is a grand traditional festival in Yi nationalities’ ghetto, and it is annually held on the first fair day after the Spring Festival every year. During the celebration, people of all ages and both sexes from surrounding villages dress in festive costumes and gather to the streets. The members of dragon dancing team, flower-drum team will spontaneously come to the street to provide performances. They pray together for a better year to come, a greater harvest and better-off life in the coming new year. Today, with more rapid economic and social development of E'shan County and its better layout of tourism resources, the celebration of traditional festivals was further enriched.

   Yunnan's largest and highest-quality lantern show festival has been lighting up central Yunnan's Yuxi city from Jan 25, 2017 to March 12, 2017.. 　　The festival includes seven subjects with 120 lamps to showcase Yuxi's multiple cultures.

The latest news from the county Fuxian Lake Authority is that the time plank road besides the Fuxian Lake was completed, with a total length of about 28 kilometers. The brand-new look and environment of the lake-shore provides more pro-lake space for the public. The 3-meter-wide plank road sometimes passes through the woods, and sometimes stands in the water as if you are walking right in the lake. When taking a stroll in it, you can breathe the beauty of Fuxian Lake at just one glance. 　 　 　　As an ecological scenery corridor with a total length of about 28 kilometers and width of 3 meters, this plank road starts from Jianshan Primary School on the west and ends at Dashidong Village on the east, costing an investment about RMB120 million. What’s more, scenery spots along the road are as follows, Ecological Wetland beside North-shore of Fuxian Lake, Forest Sea Park, Moon Bay Wetland, and Sakura Valley, providing beautiful cultural landscape along with the scene of pure sea and blue sky. 　 　 　　For your experience, this plank road will satisfy your desire of enjoying the lake view, listening to the wind and taking a good walk at the same time, for its magnificence in ntegrating woods, beaches and strange stones together. A tourist named Li Hongbiao addressed that the construction of this plank road did not just provide a fine spot for tourists visiting Chengjiang County, but also an enrichment of the beautiful landscape along Fuxian Lake. 　　According to the person in charge of this project, the construction of the plank road includes new ecological gallery road, bike lane, the reconstruction of former facilities, scenic spots, landscaping facilities and afforestation projects. The project comprehensively evaluated the environmental carrying capacity of the northern shore of Fuxian Lake, and fully out-spotted the local culture, and created beautiful scenery with good landscape resources. Also, it improves the Fuxian Lake tourism facilities and scientifically planned the spatial layout and industrial structure of the north shore ecological wetland to build a lakeside plank road, with ecological resort characteristics of nature, health and leisure.