Fine there will be this tournament, although I'm rather sorry that it has to be named after an element of Chinese government economic and diplomatic policy - sport is sport, that should be enough..

What is a non-traditional Yunnan eatery? Why are these 'traditional'?

Sounds far-fetched to me - no suspicion that Friends of the Earth are in bed with coal companies.

Always a contradiction at the heart of ethnic tourism. The synthesis can, at best, be 'authentic ethnic tourism', where the benefits (economic and otherwise) are under the control of the ethnic group itself. And of course this can be cut through by class within the ethnic group - i.e., those who benefit most will likely be those of whatever passes for the local upper class, as well as anyone from outside who gains local power (economic or otherwise). As past of a larger money economy, what happens is increasing rationalization - usually, 'capitalist' - of what formerly had been more communal and cooperative. This is what tourists pay to see, as a show (e.g., observed (for the most part) entertainment
Conundrum. But hey, it can still be good.

I'm not saying there are no benefits to what are called progress and development, I'm saying that what is called progress and development is not NECESSARILY beneficial. 'Lifting people out of poverty' is beneficial in itself, yes. I'm just not at all sure that that's all that goes on. For one thing, there's the opinion of the peafowls...