Xishuangbanna: located at the extreme southern tip of Ytmnan Province with Burma and Laos to the south, is 730 kilometers from Kunmfng. It occupies an area of some 20000 square kilometers. There are more than ten ethnic minorities: Dai, Hani, Bulang, Jinuo, ere, with a total population of 796 000. Among them, the Dai Nationality takes up one third in number.

Xishuangbanna lies just below the Tropic of Cancer and the land is hilly with some moantains and deep valleys. Laneang River and its tributaries flow through the area. Indian Ocean monsoons bring in humid air and it is often windless.The climate is ideal for plains and animals. One quarter of China's faunal species and one sixth of its plant species are living and growing on this marvelously rich and fertile area.

In Xxishuangbanna,there are approximately 100 000 hectares of virgin forest with over 5 000 species of woody and herbaceous plants, ranging from huge arbors to primitive ferns. Rare and precious animals and birds thrive in the relative safety of the dense tropical jungles.

Since there are only two seasonshere, hot and dry, and hot and humid, people for generations have never seen snow.When cold winter comes- most of the places in China are the world of ice and snow. But here, it is green and luxuriant with flowers everywhere, and without feeling of cold.

In Dai language, Xishangbanna twelve; Banna means a thousand pieces of land. Xishuangh is twelve thousand pieces of land, which simply denotes twelve administrative units.

For centuries, Xishuangbanna had been a hidden land and it was almost inaccessible, In the mid-19th century, it took a month and a half on foot from Kunming to Jinghong.Now it,takes us only there days by bus or an hour by plane.Xishuanbanna is not fenowned as a huge natural zoo,but has earned the name "the Pearl on the Grown of Kingdom of plantsPlaa".

There are many scenic spoots here.Chunhua Park,Natianality park,theTropicalCropsResearchInstitute,Peacock lake, Mange Buddhist Temple, Mandou Folk Custom Village, White Elephant Lake, Manluandian Folk kustom Yravelling Village, Manjinglan Dai Village, Olive Plain,Mengyang Elephant-like Tree, Manfeilong Bamboo Shoots Pagoda and Mandian Waterfall me in Jinghong. Octagon Temple in Jingzhen, One-Tree Forest and the landscape of Daluo River are in Monghai Monglun Tropical Botanic Garden,Looking-up-into-the-Sky Tree, Corridor in the Sky and Big Root are in Mongla.