Pingbian County sits at the southeast corner of Honghe Prefecture in the south of Yunnan Province. It is 300kms distance from Kunming, capital of Yunnan, 40kms distance from Mengzi, Capital of Honghe and 300kms distance from Hanoi, Capital of Vietnam. The county covers an area of 1906km2 with a population of 154,000. THe GDP of Pingbian was 1,076,000,000 RMB in 2013.
Kang Yun Foundation built its first school in Baige in 2002. Since then the Foundation has been funding various programs to promote education in Pingbian.
