Yuxi

Yuxi is a prefecture-stage city within the critical a part of Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. The place of work of Yuxi is Hongta District. Yuxi is approximately 90 kilometres south of Kunming. The metropolis become founded in 960 AD, at a time while Yunnan turned into not but a part of China. Yuxi was once the middle region of Yunnan Province at some point of the Previous Qin Dynasty.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it have become a county of Yizhou Shire. The following dynasties witnessed the continuous separations and unifications of the place. It became now not till 1997 that Yuxi became a prefecture-level town of the People's Republic of China. Yuxi is the home of the Hongta Group, which turned into named after the Red Pagoda which sits atop a nearby hill. The Pagoda was initially white, however become painted pink for the duration of the cultural revolution.

The tobacco is of high first-class due to the fact there are over 2300 hours of sunlight a yr in the vicinity, ok rainfall within the summer, and superb soil that produces a plethora of different end result and greens. The region has began producing wine, which could show to be pretty palatable within the next decade or so. There are widespread mineral deposits of tin and phosphate ores, which include the Heavenly Triangle of Huaning, Jiangchuan and Chengjiang.