Tin capital One is old Yunnan Red River of China

Gejiu lies in the south of Yunnan, 318 kilometers from Kunming, it is the Capital site of Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe. 1375 sq. km. for an old area, among them the area of mountain area accounts for 85%, the area of dam district accounts for 15%, population 370,000. One is old It is with Yi s language The fruit is made Transliteration evolve,mean not planting by son on Qiao, not take Qiao the places of the meals of.

One is old high, high quality and well-known with its output of tin, it is world-famous tin. Contain very abundant mineral resources in an old underground, the reserves of tin is more than 900,000 tons among them, accounts for 1/3 of Chinese tin reserves.

An old industry relies mainly on smelting ores in mining, the nonferrous metals products find a good sale in more than 40 countries or regions such as Great Britain, the United States and Japan. Besides the industry of this main body of metallurgical industry, one is so old as to also take shape in important industry such as two major pillar industries and electromechanics, building materials of light and textile industries of chemical industry.

Clothes, hemp yarn of ramie, spices, energy-conserving fluorescent lamp,etc. find a good sale in America and Europe, Southeast Asia, more than 30 countries or regions of Hong Kong and Macro.

It belongs to Ben Gu (namely Linan office, builds water county today) that one is old and ancient ,Belong to the intersection of Mengzi and county when the yuan, call piece on being old. The 2nd year of the Republic of China (1913) Set up the county, turned county into a city (the county) in 1950 . According to the records of prefectural state s annals of Chinese book : Gu Ben adopt mountain, produce copper tin.

Go through every generation of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, manage for being folk, to the ninth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1883) Start to have officers and traders to manage. The 29th year of the Republic of China (1940) Establish the cloud Nancy industry s company, is up to more than 4000 tons at the beginning of the 20th century output, accounts for more than 90% of China s export quantum.

An old superhighway and narrow gauge railway go to Kunming directly, reach the river mouth of important strategic place of frontier adjacent to Vietnam in the south, the domestic network of highways extends in all direction. An old city is pretty and cleverly-made, the house is built around the gold lake.

City have the intersection of treasure and the intersection of China and park, the intersection of treasure and the intersection of China and temple can visit, visit, a good place for recuperating and taking a shower from the intersection of urban area and kilometer of sand hot spring Jias. Such tin esthetic and graceful handicrafts as an old tin drawing, tin wine produced has, it is a famous and precious tourist souvenir.

Rice noodles, cooking the bean curd, Mengzi New Year cake is the famous local delicacies.