Dianchi is located the southwest of Kunming city which is famous as Plateau Bright Pearl. What’s more it is considered as the mother lake by Kunming people. So if you study Chinese in Kunming, it is a must-go place for you to visit. The Dianchi Lake is with about 1886 meters in height and the average size is 330 square kilometers. The average height of Dianchi Lake is 5 meters, while the highest height of the water is 8 meters. The water of the lake gets out from the sea mouth in southwest which is generally called as Tanglang River. And it is the beginning of the Pudu River which is one of the tributary of the Jinsha River.
Dianchi Lake is also a beautiful place for you to take pictures when you travel in Kunming or travel in Yunnan.
Off the coast of Dianchi Lake which has 250 kilometers, there are a great many types of scenery are worth visiting. The visitors may visit the Haigeng Park, Xiyuan villa, Longmen village, Kwun Yam Mountain, Baiyukou and so on. There is also plenty of sightseeing for the visitors. They can visit the relics dating back to The Stone Age. Besides, they can follow the trace of the ancient grave of the king in Yunnan. On the other hand, the visitor also can probe the mysteries of the culture in Yunnan. Decades of places of historic interest and scenic beauty are along the the Dianchi Lake. They are Western Hill, Baiyukou, the native place of Zhenghe, the ancient temple of Panlong, Jingang tower in Guandu district and so on. No matter the large town or the small one, they are the best place for the visitors to enjoy the local conventions and customs. There are Haikou, Kunyang, Jinning, Chenggong, Guandu, Heilinpu and so are.
Dianchi Lake has been deeply populated in recent years so that it has been put on the list of the key environment protection by State Department. And it is one of the key environment protections in the policy of “three lakes, three rivers”. Dianchi Lake has been polluted for a long time and by many complicated reasons. The water has been polluted since the later period in 70s. And it has become more serious in 80s, especially in 90s. The eutrophication has been more serious. These are the reasons of pollution of Dianchi Lake: first,Dianchi Lake is located in the downstream of Kunming city. It is in the lowest place in Dianchi Basin; second, the domestic sewage has been poured into the Dianchi Lake; third, the industrial sewage has been allowed into the Lake; forth, one of the reasons of pollution is the agriculture; fifth, the cities and towns in the Dianchi river basin have developed in a fast pace; sixth, Dianchi is half closed lakes so that there is insufficient clean water to replace the water in the lake; seventh, the size of the lake is getting smaller, the lake basin becomes shallow in the evolution naturally. And the lake is growing old. The pollutants are accumulating in the lake so that the pollution gets worse.
The pollution of Dianchi Lake has been an anxious problem. In order to deal with the purification of the Dianchi Lake, China and Yunnan province have cost 4,000,000,000 Yuan since the policy of “seven five year plan”. Although this money from the country, local government and the loan from the World Bank have worked and the pollution of the Lake has deduced, it is hard to clean the pollution completely. At the moment, it is belong to the seriously polluted lake in 5 aspects.
In recent years, Yunnan province and Kunming city has considered the pollution of Dianchi Lake as the major project in the environmental management. There has 17,177,000,000 Yuan been use in the environment management of Dianchi Lake. It is 7.7 times than the money use during the “Ten-Five year period”. It is the 3.6 times than the total investment during the Nine-Five and Ten-Five period. It is the five years which has been invested greatest investment, made the most intensive efforts. And it is the most effective result during these 5 years. The trend of getting worse has been stopped. The polluted water of Dianchi Lake has been improved and it keeps well. The environment and lake water landscape in part of the lake have been improved greatly. The ecosystem of the Dianchi basin has been restored gradually.