In the high mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province, three rivers – the Jinsha, Nujiang and Lancang – all originated from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, run roughly parallel, north to south ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Consisting of eight geographical clusters of protected areas within the boundaries of the Three Parallel Rivers National Park, in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

The Sanjiang region in Southwest China's Yunnan Province has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage sites. The Sanjiang region features the magnificent view of three giant rivers joining ...

As an important province in south-western China, Yunnan enjoys an outstanding natural environment and rich species resources. It is known as a Kingdom of Fauna, Kingdom of Flora and Species Gene Bank.

China's Xinhua news agency quoted officials in Yunnan as saying 6,650 houses had been destroyed in the province and 430,000 others damaged. More than 100,000 people have already been evacuated ...