"Early Homo sapiens Fossil", named "Zhaotong Man" about 654.38+ 10,000 years ago, fills the gap between the ape-man stage and the late Homo sapiens stage in Yunnan Province, indicating that Zhaotong City is one of the important areas of human origin and development.

During the 6,000 years from about 1 10,000 years ago to about 4,000 years ago, the ancestors who lived here have widely used grinding stone tools, learned the techniques of pottery, textile, agriculture and grazing, and began to live and settle in cities.

From the Western Weekend to the early Spring and Autumn Period, the Du Yu tribe entered Shu, "teaching people to rely on agriculture", brought advanced farming civilization, won the support of Shu people, and became the king of Shu, with the title of "Wang Di". In 250 BC, King Qin Xiaowen used Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, to dig a burning road.

Second, Zhaotong, Yunnan:

The municipal administrative region under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province is located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. Lower reaches of Jinsha River; Located in the transition zone from Sichuan Basin to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

Zhaotong is high in the south and low in the north, with the lowest elevation of 267m (Shuifu County) and the highest elevation of 4040m (Qiaojia County), with a total area of 2302 1 km2. Zhaotong has one district (Zhaoyang District), 10 county and 143 townships (offices). At the end of 20 10, the total population was 5213,000, including 542,000 people from 23 ethnic minorities such as Miao, Yi and Hui. ?

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Located in the southwest of China, it is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization. Yuanmou, who lived 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, was the earliest human being discovered in China and Asia until 2065.438+03.

During the Warring States period, this was the place where Yunnan tribes lived. Yunnan is called "the south of colorful clouds" and "colorful Yunnan", another way of saying it is named because it is located in the south of Yunling.

It covers an area of 390,000 square kilometers, accounting for 4. 1 1% of the national area, ranking eighth among provincial administrative regions in China. The total population is 45.96 million (20 10), accounting for 3.35% of the national population, ranking 12. It governs 8 cities and 8 ethnic autonomous prefectures. ?

Adjacent to Yunnan Province are Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Tibet. Yunnan's three neighboring countries are Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the south of the province.