Southwest China’s Yunnan Province will spend about 30 billion yuan (4.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the coming three years to tackle pollution in Dianchi Lake, the largest freshwater lake on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

Yunnan Governor Qin Guangrong listed the work on Dianchi as “top priority” in the building of a modern Kunming, capital of the province, at a conference earlier this week.

Qin said that the project’s success relied on the implementation of six sub-programs including pollution source interception, ecological protection, dredging and others.

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…… a brilliant scholar named Yang Shen, originally a native of Sichuan, but forced to spend the last thirty years of his life in the frontier province of Yunnan.

Yang was a prodigious author and poet, and a great admirer of Yunnan’s fantastic natural beauty, including the acclaimed “Pearl of the Plateau” — the great Lake Dianchi, situated just to the south of the city of Kunming.

Yang wrote a poem, “Glimpses of Spring,” about the lake.

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