Kunming is the largest flower supplier of the world.  The flower industry in Yunnan province started to develop towards the end of the 1980s. Currently, Yunnan is the most important province in China in the field of flower growing. Yunnan province accounts for 50% of the nation’s total cut flower production. The size of the planting area for cut flowers in Yunnan province amounts to 4000 hectares. In 2002, the output totaled 2.3 billion stems. In the same year the flower industry in Yunnan had a total output of RMB 3.4 billion. Export amounted to USD 18 million.

Apart from sales on the domestic market, Yunnan also exports its flowers to a number of foreign countries and regions such as Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore.

Shangyi Street Flower Wholesale Market
We went to the largest local flower market. Each store was very small, but the way they display the flowers were very special. The most amazing flowers were dry flowers. These dry flowers were so colorful and won't fade. If you regular watering them, there flowers will maintain their color more than 3 years.

Flower growers in Kunming most like the autumn and winter seasons, as this is when no flowers grow in the majority of other cities in China. They consequently wholesale large quantities of flowers to big cities in other provinces, and business is very profitable. In spring and summer, on the other hand, flower prices are very low.

At the Shangyi Street Flower Wholesale Market it is possible to buy a large bunch of flowers for just ten yuan, which provides the chance to give beautiful presents to friends and relatives living in other provinces without breaking the bank.

China tours inclusive of visiting Kunming