The end of the year is a special time in which editors and writers around the world recycle content from the previous twelve months and repackage it as new content. We at GoKunming are not above this practice, so here's our look at the people and events that shaped 2010 in Kunming and Yunnan.

January
Seven people were killed and 34 injured when a section of overpass collapsed at the site of Kunming's future airport. Yunnan's universities were lagging behind much of the rest of the country and even southwest China. A man in Xishuangbanna was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating what may have been the last Indochinese tiger in China. The Kunming municipal government declared war on evil forces.

February
Many Kunming residents were having trouble making sense of the destruction of most of the city's long distance bus stations, which were replaced by four new stations on the outskirts of town. The several-month-long drought across much of Yunnan was intensifying to the point that the city's water and power supplies were under threat.

March
Acclaimed Chinese documentary maker Zhao Dayong stopped by our office. Anti-burglar cages were being removed from streetside windows around town. China was proposing a Eurasian high-speed rail network centered around Kunming. Angry at chengguan officers, residents of Kunming's Wuhua District