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Tibetan seamstress creates brand with ethnic dresses

Tibetan seamstress creates brand with ethnic dresses

Besides the Tibetan costumes, Urgyen Drolma, a 76-year-old woman from Southwest China, has become familiar with making other ethnic clothes after new members groups came into her family. ..

Traditional Tibetan costumes thrive in modern era

Traditional Tibetan costumes thrive in modern era

Guozhuang dance, meaning singing and dancing in a circle in the Tibetan language, is usually performed for celebration and recreation in Benzilan Town, Diqing, Yunnan Province.

A time for tea

A time for tea

Li Qiang, keeper of a 120-year-old teahouse in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, treats his work place like home. For regulars who passed away, he still reserves seat, with lit cigarette and cup ..

Pudacuo National Park nurtures natural beauty

Pudacuo National Park nurtures natural beauty

Established in 2005, Pudacuo National Park Yunnan's Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture is the first of its kind China. Covering an area 602.1 square kilometers, national park more than 3,500 meters ..

Height of ambition

Height of ambition

Vision and determination form the foundation for a road that leads a picturesque but isolated mountain village to a more prosperous era, Yang Yang reports.

Pudacuo National Park nurtures natural beauty

Pudacuo National Park nurtures natural beauty

Established in 2005, Pudacuo National Park Yunnan's Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture is the first of its kind China. Covering an area 602.1 square kilometers on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, national park ..

A Mountain of Opportunity

A Mountain of Opportunity

51-year-old Tibetan Sina Dingzhu's lives in Jiangpo village, Foshan township, Deqin county, Diqing autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province. This small village sits across the river from Meili Snow ..

Enchanting view of national park in Yunnan

Enchanting view of national park in Yunnan

Pudacuo, or Potatso, National Park is located in Yunnan province's Shangri-La county. The region of this park contains more than 20 percent China's plant species, about one-third its mammal and bird ..

Bringing prosperity to paradise

Bringing prosperity to paradise

Yunnan province's Shangri-La city has long lured travelers from home and abroad, who seek to discover the paradisiacal place described in British author James Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon. ..

Forest coverage rate reaches 75 percent in Deqen

Forest coverage rate reaches 75 percent in Deqen

It is reported that to date, the forest coverage rate of Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Yunan Province has reached 75 percent, and storage volume 241 million cubic meters, an increase 1 ..

Protection network set for snub-nosed monkeys

Protection network set for snub-nosed monkeys

A protection network for the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey was established in this southwestern province on Monday, marking July 15 as first Snub-nosed Monkey Day, drawing more public attention to work. ..

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas

Situated in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan province China, Three Parallel Rivers Protected Areas is a natural serial property consisting 15 protected areas, grouped into eight clusters. It consists ..

A guardian of Shinze culture

A guardian of Shinze culture

63-year-old Wangdu lives in Shazho Village, Wujing Township Shangri-La, Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. As you walk into his home, can see a row of own Shinze (a kind ..

Black-necked crane in Shangri-La, SW China

Black-necked crane in Shangri-La, SW China

In the Napa Lake Nature Reserve in Shangri-La County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan province, groups of black-necked cranes are seen, making picturesque winter more ..

Dressmaker Drolma: I only do one thing in my whole life

Dressmaker Drolma: I only do one thing in my whole life

"As the oldest daughter in my family of five girls, has only asked me to do one thing, make Tibetan clothes. This is also what I most love do," said Drolma, inheritor clothing sewing skill, a provincial-level ..