A free training course on Dongba culture was opened to children at the Snow Mountain Academy in Lijiang this summer.
Lijiang Airport Expressway will open to traffic on July 27, becoming the first expressway in northwest Yunnan province.
A tourism company in Lijiang is offering visitors a chance to take a free rafting trip down the Yangtze River.
Lijiang city has invested 5.25 billion yuan ($823 million) in education in the last five years and its investment in education reached 1.43 billion yuan in 2011.
Located about 600 km northwest of Kunming in Yunnan province, Lijiang is on the UNESCO world heritage list. There the Naxi people created the Dongba culture, the soul of Lijiang.
Yulong, a Naxi nationality autonomous county in northwest Yunnan province, is a world heritage site with abundant tourism resources, yet it is also a typical agricultural county in China.
A youth delegation of the South Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade paid a visit to Lijiang on July 9, 2012. Both sides hope to enhance exchanges and cooperation in tourism and culture.
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Protection Bureau of World Cultural Heritage Lijiang Old Town.
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