On April 19th, the 2nd Cuoke Watermelon Festival was held in Ganzhuang Street, Yuanjiang County. Using watermelons as a medium and the festival as a platform to make friends, it showcased the development achievements of watermelon industry in Cuoke and shared the joy of watermelon harvest. Cuoke Village has been growing watermelons since 1992. Thanks to its climatic advantages of abundant sunshine and large temperature differences between day and night, the watermelons grown here are highly favored by consumers for their sweet taste, large size, and juicy flesh. In 2025, Cuoke Village expanded its watermelon planting area by approximately 100 mu, bringing the total area to over 300 mu. Households engaged in watermelon cultivation account for 75% of the village's permanent population. With continuous improvements in planting techniques, each mu of watermelon field yields about 2 tons of watermelons, generating an output value of 3.6 million yuan.                                       

To fully boost the development of the blueberry industry, Yuxi Jiangchuan Power Supply Bureau has invested 1.2636 million yuan to erect 1.63 kilometers of 10kV power lines and 1.96 kilometers of 0.4kV power lines, and build 2 dedicated transformers and 5 public transformers, specifically to ensure power supply for blueberry planting. Meanwhile, power supply service personnel take the initiative to provide frontline support, ensuring sufficient power supply, stable voltage, and precise parameter settings for temperature controllers in greenhouses. They also irregularly visit the base to promote safe electricity usage knowledge, conduct daily inspections, and promptly eliminate potential safety hazards, ensuring that blueberry planting throughout the process has timely, reliable, and safe power supply.

Recently, visitors to Yimen have noticed a café in Luzhi Town, which looks exactly like a tape recorder. With 3.5 meters wide, 10 meters long, and weighing 6 tons, it perfectly replicates the iconic dual-cassette tape recorder from the 1980s, and the owner continuously plays pop music from the 1980s, attracting an increasing number of netizens and tourists to explore it. This highly creative café, which has gone viral on social media, has become a popular local landmark for photo check-ins.

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Hongtashan Park, attracting visitors with its springtime spectacle. On March 25, many citizens flocked here to admire the flowers, enjoy the scenery, and take photos, creating a beautiful landscape. Every year when the cherry blossoms bloom, Hongtashan Park draws a large number of tourists.

On February 22nd, the first round of the 2025 Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL) season was unfolding in full fervor. The picturesque city of Yuxi emerged as a magnet for football enthusiasts. In this charming locale, the fervor of football seamlessly intertwined with the city's distinctive allure, presenting the fans with an indelible and memorable experience. Through their own lenses, the fans keenly perceived the vibrancy and warmth of Yuxi, and bore witness to the city's unique splendor amidst this grand football extravaganza.

Performers of Yuxi Nie’er Bamboo Orchestra performed on the D87 China-Laos Railway international passenger train in Jan. 14. At 8:08 am, the China-Laos Railway international passenger train No. D87 left Kunming South Railway Station and headed for Vientiane, Laos. Different from the previous train, the joy and vibe of a transnational artistic performance was spreading all over the train, so that audience of all kinds of "screens" can feel the joy of this international train. (Photo by Hu Chao/Xinhua News Agency)

In recent years, to promote the development of the whole industrial chain of biomedicine, Yuxi has made every effort to build a cluster of "leading, supporting and serving the development of the whole industrial chain", and strived to create an important growth pole of Yuxi economy. There are 70 biomedicine and medical device enterprises in Yuxi, including 31 manufacturing enterprises. From January to November 2024, Yuxi biomedical industry chain achieved an output value of RMB 11.531 billion yuan.

As the China-Laos Railway sped through the mountains, and the industrial development momentum along the line was surging. In the past three years, the China-Laos Railway has effectively promoted the development of industries along the line, as well as the logistics hubs and industrial zones along the way. Driven by this golden channel, Yuxi City has embraced the railway economy, and is now on its way of fast high-quality development. As the city with the most stations along the China-Laos Railway, Yuxi actively gives play to the advantages of logistics supply chain agglomeration and industrial chain construction along the China-Laos Railway, and vigorously develops its compound urban economy. Among all the 5 stations, Yuxi Station focuses on the development of new business forms and new economy such as health care, business support, leisure & entertainment, and convenient logistics, to build a new city with high-speed railway. Yanhe Station is working on the layout of grain storage, cold chain logistics, CNC machine tools and other industries, to create a new model of the deep integration of modern service industry and advanced manufacturing industry. Eshan Station and Huanian Station are working on the development of green steel, equipment manufacturing and integrated logistics industries, vigorously promoting the replacement and upgrading of Yukun and Xianfu steel production capacity. Yuanjiang Station is making efforts on creating silicon manganese alloy, nickel, manganese, cobalt nonferrous metal metallurgical new materials industry, logistics, commerce and so on.

A few days ago, Yuxi City Tonghai County Dashu Community 5th "fish Festival · Long street banquet" was held alongside Qilu Lake for tourists to experience interesting farming. Dashu community has held "Fish Festival · Long Street Banquet" activities for five years, through the integration of agriculture and tourism, to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture to sightseeing agriculture and leisure agriculture, and to create a new model of experiential rural tourism. Next, Dashu community will continue to explore a new way of integrated development of agriculture and tourism.

The Hani people have a deep affection for rice, and most of their festivals are related to rice cultivation. Generations of Hani ancestors worked hard, in the long-term cultivation of rice fields, produced a large number of rice-related production rituals, sacrificial activities and festival activities. These rich rice farming culture has also been passed down by generations of Hani people, and the "Kaz Karagu" ceremony is one of the folk activities of Hani people. In recent years, with the adjustment of agricultural planting structure, although the planting area of cash crops has expanded, in Hani villages, every household grows rice more or less, and they hope to pass on Hani's rice farming culture.