For a quiet life, more urbanites are heading to Dali

Su Jinning used to commute more than an hour a day to work in Beijing, sometimes driving through thick smog. Now, he spends his mornings under a blue sky, walking the 5 kilometers from his home to a small market to shop for fresh vegetables.

"I can breathe here, and the water is clean," said Su, who quit his job with a State-owned company in 2015 and moved with his family to the ancient town of Dali.

Many urbanites have made the switch to this quiet corner of Yunnan province in recent years - and going by the people China Daily talked to, the vast majority have come from the nation's capital.