Kunming, also known as Spring City , is the provincial capital of Yunnan Province and the central city of the central Yunnan urban agglomeration . It is one of the important central cities in western China approved by the State Council [1] . As of 2019, the city has jurisdiction over 7 districts, 3 counties, 1 county-level city and 3 autonomous counties, with a total area of 21,473 square kilometers, a built-up area of 483.52 square kilometers, a permanent population of 6.95 million, and an urban population. 5.1152 million people, with an urbanization rate of 73.6%. [2-3]
Kunming is located in southwestern China and the central part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau . It has a unique location of “connecting Guizhou-Guangxi in the east, through Sichuan and Chongqing into the Central Plains, south to Vietnam, Datai and Cambodia, and west to Myanmar and India and Pakistan”. channel and to Shenzhen as the starting point of the third seat from east to west Eurasian Continental bridge intersection point, is facing east China in South Asia , South Asia open gateway to the city, located in ASEAN "10 + 1" free trade zone economic circle, the Greater Mekong subregion economic The intersection of the cooperation circle and the Pan-Pearl River Delta regional economic cooperation circle. [4]
Kunming is a national historical and cultural city . As early as 30,000 years ago, humans lived and multiplied around Dianchi Lake ; Dian Kingdom was established in 278 BC and its capital was established here; Nanzhao Kingdom built and extended the eastern city in 765, which was the beginning of Kunming's construction; In the late Ming Dynasty, the Yongli regime of Nanming established its capital in Kunming. Kunming belongs to the monsoon climate of the northern subtropical low-latitude plateau mountain. It is a mountainous landform surrounded by mountains on three sides and Dianchi Lake in the south. The scenery along the lake is beautiful. Because of its location on the low-latitude plateau , it has a climate of "all seasons like spring " and enjoys the reputation of " Spring City ". [5]
