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Climate in KUNMING

Located at an elevation of 1,890 m on the Yungui Plateau with low latitude and high elevation, Kunming has one of the mildest climates in China, characterized by short, cool dry winters with mild days and crisp nights, and long, warm and humid summers, but much cooler than the lowlands. The weather never gets very hot in summer; the temperature has exceeded 30 °C (86 °F) only on a handful of occasions. However, freak snowfalls occur in occasional winters. Controlled by a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb), average highs are around 15 °C (59 °F) in winter and 24 °C (75 °F) in summer. With its perpetual spring-like weather, which provides the ideal climate for plants and flowers, Kunming is known as the "City of Eternal Spring". The city is covered with blossoms and lush vegetation all-year round.^[10] The period from May to October is the rainy season and the rest of the year is dry. The city has a mean annual rainfall of 1,010 millimeters (40 in), with an annual sunshine period of 2,250 hours and an annual frost-free period of 230 days. Extreme temperatures in the city have ranged from −7.8 °C (18 °F) to 32.2 °C (90 °F).^[11]

Mineral resources include phosphorus, salt, magnesium, titanium, coal, quartz sand, clay, silica, copper. Phosphorus and salt mines are the most plentiful. Proven reserves of phosphorus mine is 2,277 million tons. Kunyang Phosphorus Mine is one of the three major phosphorusmines in the country. Rock salt reserves are 1,222 million tons and mirabilite reserves are 1,908 million tons. Dongchuan is a major copper production base.

Proven reserves of Coal bed gas is about 500 billion cubic meters, equal to 720 million tons of standard coal.^[12] Geothermal resources are widely distributed.

[edit]Environment and horticulture

Kunming has 2,585 hectares of lawns, trees and flowers averaging 4.96 square meters per capita. The green space rate is 21.7%. The city's smoke control area is 115 square kilometers and noise control area 87 square kilometers.

Kunming is a significant horticultural center in China, providing products such as grain, wheat, horsebeans, corn, potato and fruit such as peaches, apples, oranges, grapes and chestnuts. Kunming is world-famous for its flowers and flower-growing exports. More than 400 types of flowers are commonly grown in Kunming. The camellia, yulan magnolica, azalea, fairy primrose, lily and orchid are known as the six famous flowers of the city.

The camellia was confirmed by the Municipality of Kunming as its city flower in 1983.

The Kunming city government plans to create an environmental trial court to deal with environment-related lawsuits. It is to be part of the city's intermediate people's court and will have jurisdiction over appeals by companies that have been found guilty of violatingenvironmental laws in cities throughout Yunnan province.^[13]

[edit]Paleontology

Among Chinese fossils that were discovered in 2002 was an important new invertebrate animal species from Early Cambrian deposits atChengjiang near Kunming. Didazoon haoae represented an entirely new phylum of metazoans (multicellular animals), the phylumVetulicolia. The specimen had a series of gill slits, which suggested that this new group illustrates an early stage in the diversification of thedeuterostomes, one of the major animal divisions. Other deuterostome groups are the chordates (which includes the vertebrates),hemichordates, and echinoderms. Also reported was a Devonian Chinese fossil fish, Styloichthys changae, that has features linking thelungfish to tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates).

In 2004, newly discovered well-preserved soft-bodied fossils of deuterostomes from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang deposits near Kunming represented a new group of echinoderms (a group of marine animals). Named vetulocystids, these deuterostomes were a diversesuperphylum that included the chordates, hemichordates, and echinoderms. The find shed some light on the origin of the echinoderms. See also Myllokunmingia.

[edit]Demographics

Of the more than five million people registered as residents in Kunming in 2006, more than four million were Han. The Yi people were the most prominent minority in the city, with more than 400,000 residents. The least-represented ethnic minority in Kunming were the 75 Dulong people living in the city.

Registered ethnic populations of Kunming as of 2006:^[14]

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  Han (汉族): 4,383,500
  
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  Yi (彝族): 400,200
  
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  Hui (回族): 149,000
  
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  Bai (白族): 73,200
  
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  Miao (苗族): 46,100
  
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  Lisu (傈僳族): 17,700
  
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  Zhuang (壮族): 14,000
  
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  Dai (傣族): 13,200
  
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  Hani (哈尼族): 11,000
  
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  Naxi (纳西族): 8,400
  
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  Manchu (满族): 4,800
  
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  Buyei (布依族): 3,400
  
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  Mongol (蒙古族): 2,500
  
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  Lahu (拉祜族): 1,700
  
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  Tibetan (藏族): 1,500
  
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  Yao (瑶族): 1,100
  
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  Jingpo (景颇族): 1,100
  
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  Va (佤族): 1,000
  
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  Blang (布朗族): 441
  
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  Primi (普米族): 421
  
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  Sui (水族): 294
  
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  Achang (阿昌族): 263
  
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  Nu (怒族): 156
  
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  Jino (基诺族): 135
  
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  Derung (独龙族): 75
  

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