Kunming: Residents of Kunming, the capital and the largest city of China's Yunnan Province, commemorated the 2025 Mother's Day with gifting out varieties of flowers to appreciate motherhood. The city's trading centres, especially the Kunming Flower Market, saw an upsurge in the sale of well-scented fresh-cut flowers with buyers making choices, which were presented as gifts to their mothers.
According to Ghana News Agency, traditionally, Chinese sons and daughters give their mothers a hemerocallis flower for Mother's Day, but many now gift them carnations or forget-me-nots, as well as other varieties instead. Some visitors at the Flower Market, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Kunming, expressed gratitude for the sacrifices their mothers and guardians made to promote their wellbeing.
'I do not have much to say but to thank my mother for her relentless efforts in making me who I am today,' Pi Zhihua, 35, said. He wished his mother a longer life and more blessings in the coming years. Tang Zhiyi, a teenager, described the Day as significant, saying it was an opportunity for him to recognise his mother for her resilience in his upbringing. 'I am here today to buy her a flower for all that she has done in my life,' he told the GNA.
Mia Liyandi, a businesswoman, showered praises on her mother for her love and general contribution to her life's success. 'I am buying this sunflower for her in respect of the impact that she has made in my life,' she said.
Significantly, the flower industry in Dou Nan, Kunming, which is the birthplace of China's flower industry, has now formed a cluster with two leading enterprises at its core, the only national-level flower trading market in China, as well as the flower auction centre. It now ranks first in Asia and second in the world, and owns the well-known trademarks, Dou Nan and KIFA.
In 2021, the flower trading volume in the Dou Nan Flower Industrial Park reached a historical high, with both the trading volume and transaction value of flowers exceeding the 10-billion-yuan mark for the first time. The trading volume, transaction value, cash volume, number of transactions, and export value of fresh-cut flowers have ranked first in the country for 25 consecutive years. More than 80 per cent of the fresh-cut flowers in the Yunnan Province, as well as flowers from neighbouring countries and provinces, are traded in Dou Nan.
