After I spent a month in hectic and dusty Beijing, Kunming—“the city of Eternal Spring,” the capital of Yunnan province—came as a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively. Kunming is located in China’s most ethnically and biologically diverse region—the land of the fabled paradise Shangri-La, where magical things happen.
Part of the magic, and the reason I am here, is that Yunnan is home to more than half of China’s 30,000 plant species—almost as many as are found in the entire United States.
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