Long Dragon is correct about the trimming. Some trees, especially, if infested by parasites and fungus should be trimmed. Also some varieties grow back stronger branches, or a bushier canopy.

But I have my doubt that most of the blokes I see cutting the branches have the needed knowledge of trimming plants.

Most of them just seem to enjoy playing with power tools.

As I posted above, most gardeners here lack the basic green thumb to manage healthy growth of Kunming vegetation.

Climate change is happening but the few cold days in Kunming are not a sign of it. The spring city has spring weather all year around, which is not literally a spring, let's say spring like weather, @Liumingke, if you think that cold weather is not part of spring, then I invite you to come to central Europe, and enjoy the sub zero degrees in April or May. So unless you are not from Dubai or Kuwait, straight from the desert, keeping in mind that the desert at night gets close to sub zero, well we are in fact in a city of spring.

Now Kunming if I am not wrong has an elevation of 2000+ m and is in a mountainous area, and thus prone to extreme weathers and temperatures.

Another thing is that the cold wasn't that long consecutively but a lot of cold days changing with fair weather. So it may just be individual perception.

Now the most important part.
For all the dead trees, and vegetation, let's face it Kunming or most of Chinese are shitty gardeners and landscapers.

Most of the vegetation that kicked the bucket is not local. All the plants and flowers around our house is local or if not frost safe, survived and thriving in the new sun.
Also from my gardening experience, and seeing what they do to plants here, it's beyond stupidity. The plant here get drowned in water every second day, that goes for grass, trees, bushes and flowers.

Even when it was freezing outside they nimwits still drowned the plant in water. Grass is being watered at noon time in the sunshine [deadly] and then I see the 'gardeners' scratching their heads in stupor a few weeks later, wondering how the grass died. And then spraying another load of water on it just for good measure.

Most local Kunming or surrounding vegetation can handle the heat drought and cold in Kunming, and even some of the imported green friends, such as the eucalyptus tree, so if Kunming wouldn't waste so much money and water on importing and planting trees and flowers, from tropical or subtropical areas, such as Thailand or Xishaunbana, and not pumping them full of water, before cold periods, or soaking grass in water before putting it into the sun. They would actually would have a chance of survival.

From my 16 years back and forth in China, I cannot say that the weather has been surprisingly different. Sometimes more cold days, sometimes more dry periods.

But most of what we 'feel' about this place is crappy-a** management and extensive waste of water. But I have not seen a drought or a new ice-age coming to Kunming, so far everything is rather normal. And scientists also agree, that temperature fluctuations are normal, as we are close to a scheduled ice-age.

If we don't f-it up with our own little climate change production.

@Alien
Cars are the least of the problem, their emissions are getting more insignificant annually, as the technology gets cleaner day by day, except Volkswagens...lol
At least concerning CO2 emissions.
But of course for your own health it would be good to get some exercise.

For saving the planet, flying is also not to bad if you put it relatively, the emissions vs. person [cargo] traveled, vs. distance per gallon, it is quite o.k. the problem is the emissions location, close to the weather producing elevation and the proximity of the atmosphere.

So the blame has to go to heavy industry, fossil fuel power plants, and ships, ships are the worst of all, and there are plenty of them. So next time when you drink your favorite imported lager, or your favourite imported cheese, keep in mind that for the trip it took, it had the same emissions of 500.000 cars /annually.

If you put SOx into the calculation then, a little over a dozen of the biggest container ships produce more SOx than all the cars on the planet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shipping

the problem is, that most sightseeings in China feel entitled to charge a ridiculous price, for littered, nasty and mostly unspectacular sightseeings.

compare with the prices overseas it's crazy.
most sightseeings for seniors and kids are free. if not they have heavy discounts. they are clean, in good shape and nobody is trying to rip you off more after you enter.

even western tourist traps are cheaper than the normal sightseeings in china.

stoneforest entrance fee gets you on the eiffel tower, or castle neuschwanstein, or the famous bridges in venice.

the animal museum in kunming (mostly stuffed animals and a few cast bones, a live size t-rex replica) almost get's you into the louvre in paris, the deutsches museum in munich, or the museum island in berlin, anne frank house in amsterdam (or for good measure,the sex or hemp museum). you may have to add a few kuais but you get a quite a bit more to see or feeling.

i dread touristy sightseeing in china, plus most cool sightseeings in china free.

@fluffy
would you mind to describe the exact problem with your washing mashine? and what kind of mashine you have (front or top loader).

they aren't that scary anymore, once you take the covers off. And they are far away from complicated, unless you have a frontloader with internal heating coil.

what pain is it causing?

is there a power problem?= flickering display? nothing at all? ....could be cable,wiring,or processor issue.

is there a mechanical problem?= power is on but no movement of the drum?
you can hear the motor but no movement?
...could be the belt or fried motor, motor wiring broken or torn off.

is there a suspension problem?= UL (unbalanced load) message? any other error code?

maybe i could give a long distance cha bu duo diagnosis.

There are tons of video tutorials online,as well. The model you have may be a cooperation model with a foreign brand. google it and see if anything in english comes up, then check if there is a tutorial in english in the www.

most fixes are really cheap and even if you can't or don't dare to fix it, knowing the range of problems,- helps to not get over priced when the fixer is there.

@alien
everyone i know starting an own business stole the recipe, customer contacts,label, company secrets.

look around: botiques,snack shops, schools (check how the school is run...you can actually trace it back to the original source), sellers ad resellers....it's everywhere.