TWENTY years ago, the farmers around Yunnan’s Dianchi Lake mostly grew vegetables for sale in local village markets.
On the eastern shore of the lake, the Dounan area of Kunming – now the site of the world’s second-largest flower market, after one in the Netherlands – was then a small village.
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