KUNMING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The second Tengchong Beautiful Countryside Marathon will be held on March 22 in Tengchong city, Southeast China's Yunnan Province on March 1, organizers said on Tuesday.
The event will feature a full marathon, a half-marathon, a 5km run and a 2.5km parent-child run. A total of 3,000 runners are expected to participate in the event, including 600 half-marathon runners.
Li ping, deputy mayor of the Tengchong municipal government, said the race routes and service stations were carefully designed to incorporate the beauty of the local countryside into the race.
Tengchong is an important gateway from China to the south and southeast Asia by land.
