The first Shangri-La matsutake festival was held August 17 at the Jidi hamlet of Jiantang Town, Shangri-La City in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

In the Tibetan language, the word Jidi means a place of prosperity and peace. As an ancient village in Shangri-La, Jidi has a forest area of 272,600 Chinese acres, with an average elevation of 3,300 meters and an annual precipitation of 1,100 mm. All make the village an ideal place for matsutake growth. 

The annual matsutake output in Jidi is more than 300 tons, an economic pillar for the village. And the festival also represents a local effort to develop rural tourism and increase the villagers' income. 

Report by Huang Xiaoli; trans-editing by Wang Shixue