Where is Zhaotong in Yunnan?

Zhaotong is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, in the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. It is the hub of China's famous "Southern Silk Road" and is known as "the key is in the south of Yunnan and the throat is in the west of Sichuan". It is an important channel connecting Yunnan with the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, and a two-way corridor from the mainland to South Asia, Southeast Asia and Yunnan to the mainland.

200 1 1 13, Zhaotong area and county-level Zhaotong city were abolished, and prefecture-level Zhaotong city was established. Zhaoyang District is established in Zhaotong City, and the administrative area of Zhaotong City at the county level is Zhaoyang District. Zhaotong has many mountains and great differences in altitude, and has the characteristics of plateau monsoon three-dimensional climate.

There is little difference between the four seasons in Zhaotong, but the climate at different altitudes is very different. From high altitude to low altitude, there are plateau climate, temperate climate and subtropical climate. At the same altitude, the temperature in the south of Zhaotong is higher than that in the north, and the humidity is lower than that in the north.

Zhaotong has a wide variety of biological resources and excellent quality, and is famous for its special agricultural products such as gastrodia elata, potatoes, apples and bamboo. It is the world's high-quality gastrodia elata provenance base, the potato planting capital of the world potato plateau, the largest high-quality apple base in southern China, and the "hometown of bamboo" in China.

Zhaotong is rich in hydropower resources. There are three giant power stations in Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba and Baihetan. It is an important base of the country's "power transmission from west to east". Coal and sulfur reserves rank first in the province, which is the core area of wild gastrodia elata in China.