Dongchuan

Dongchuan District[a] is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. The district was approved to form from the former Dongchuan City by the State Council on December 6, 1998.[2] Dongchuan was upgraded to a city in 1958. In 1998, Dongchuan was merged into Kunming and became one of its districts. Dongchuan is in the north of Kunming's administrative area and borders Sichuan to the north.