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Africa/Niamey |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+1 |
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Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
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Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Diffa, the capital of the Diffa region in southeastern Niger, is located on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and shares a border with Nigeria, making it one of the most important border cities in Niger. The city is located in the lower Niger River basin around the climate of the tropical desert climate, hot and dry throughout the year, the average annual precipitation is less than 300 millimeters. The economy is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, and the surrounding areas are rich in millet, sorghum and livestock. Diffa, as a regional trade center, undertakes the function of cross-border trade with neighboring countries, such as Nigeria, and is especially famous for the trade of livestock, agricultural products and handicrafts. The city is culturally diverse, with Hausa, Tuareg and Kanuri ethnic groups living in the area, and is unique in its crafts such as traditional leather weaving and silversmithing. Despite infrastructural challenges, Diffa remains an important economic and cultural node in the south-east of the Niger, thanks to its strategic location and rich cultural heritage.
Chongqing Liangping, located in the northeast of Chongqing Municipality and the heart of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, is the "International Wetland City" and the "Hometown of Chinese Shouzhu Bamboo". The ecological endowment here is superior, with the country's first "Shouzhu Bamboo Industry Demonstration Zone", Liangping Pomelo is a national geographic indications products, crystalline flesh, sweet and sour juicy. Liangping woodblock prints and Liangping Laizi gongs and drums have been selected as national non-heritages, and Shuangguitang is the holy place of Zen Buddhism in Southwest China, and its incense has been going on for more than 300 years. In recent years, with the positioning of "landscape idyll - beautiful Liangping", Liangping has developed modern agriculture, culture and tourism integration industry, which has the magnificent beauty of the surging bamboo sea and the poetic fragrance of pomelo, making Liangping an ecological home suitable for living and touring.