In forests, competition for sunlight, rain water or food is fierce. Some trees rely on their evolutionary skills to stretch up, others come up with ways to gain more by making use of elevated places. Watch this episode of CGTN's "Silent Wisdom" series to find out how species get by deep in Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

(The video is filmed by Wang Yilin and Zhang Hao, edited by Zhang Hao.)

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