On Google Maps the stretch between Mengze (Honghe) and Pengpuzhen is still missing and by default they route you via Yuxi and Jianshui. The new road is a different one. First you go to Shillin and then pass Mile and Kaiyuan. Near Mengze you hit the old road to Vietnam again.
When you pass Mile you will see the exit sign S.Mile which always makes me smile. I don't know which joker made this sigh but there exist no N.Mile (And of course it should be Mile-S which it is in Chinese)
Since Google Maps still is not updated they cannot give you a total distance for this road but it should be around 400 Km. Take in mind that distance indications on Chinese highways are not always the distance to the actual town but the distance to the exit of that particular motorway for that town. At Shillin you enter a different motorway so the distance Hekou to Shillin might be 300 Km.
Note as well that Google maps has the administrative centre of Kunming Town in Chenggong as base when you type in "Kunming". This is nearly 30 Km away from what we regard as downtown Kunming.
(Another silly thing is that some time ago Dianchi Lake turned into Dianchi Pool and Yangzong Lake into Yangzong Sea. Luckily Fuxian Lake is still Fuxian Lake).
Celebrating a Tibetan Christmas in Yunnan
发布者Good memories of the place also I never was there during Christmas.
Were invited to stay at the church guest accommodation (No guesthouses in those days) and had the local food (Very good) and local wine (Very bad).
World War II cemetery in Yunnan receives national recognition
发布者The 70 years of support for the upkeep is not quite right. The cemetery was quite neglected during the communist time because it was honouring KMT soldiers. The Yunnan historian Ge Shuwa found it back in a rather neglected state. Since then, as well because of the changed political climate, things have changed; the place is under protection and during the last couple of years the stone engravings have been neatly painted red again. Since a few years the ground contains as well a memorial hall which is one of the better museums of Yunnan that not only tells the story of the battle for Tengchong but as well all about the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the battles to reopen the Burma Road again. In the garden you can find statues of both Stilwell and Chennault brotherly standing next to each other. In reality they hated each others guts.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者The original article talks about the last five years not four. Still quite a lot.
China to phase out fossil fuel cars, boost domestic electric vehicle industry
发布者Higher production of coal based electricity with less coal is due to outfacing of older less efficient coal based generation plants. Next to that there is a reduction of coal use in other applications then electricity generation so percentage wise coal based electricity generation goes up (as a percentage of total coal use).
Geezer might be a mathematician but that does not mean he understands numbers.
China to phase out fossil fuel cars, boost domestic electric vehicle industry
发布者Indeed still a lot of China's electricity consumption is coal based. But things are changing. In Yunnan more and more coal based plants are phased out because there is surplus of hydropower. Over the last years enormous amount of wind power generators have been installed and near Dali is one of the biggest solar farms in China.
Changes include as well the use of wind power to create fertiliser.
The other change is that Kunming's traffic has turned into stop-go-stop traffic. Electric propulsion is in this case can be less polluting then fossil fuel driven propulsion. Carbon and NOx emissions per km might be lower in these situations even if the electricity is coal based.