The small-toothed coconut cat, also known as the small-toothed civet cat, is found only in Yunnan in China and was listed as one of the top ten animals extinct in China in the twentieth century until 2011, when it was rediscovered in Yunnan.
Haifeng coriander, a critically endangered species of aquatic plants endemic to China, was originally thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in 2013 after disappearing for more than 100 years.
Five-leaf maple, one of the two most ornamental maple trees in the world, is endemic to Sichuan, China, and was first discovered in 1929, a species that took 45 years from discovery to rediscovery.
The Ili pika, a petite mountain mammal with a length of about 20 centimeters, first discovered in the Tianshan Mountains in 1983, is an endemic species in China, which disappeared after the 1990s and disappeared until it reappeared in 2014.
Crested ibis, known as the crested ibis, red ibis, living in temperate mountain forests and hilly areas, in the decade from 1964 to 1981, the crested ibises disappeared for a time, until 1981, experts found two crested ibises nesting.
In 1913, British plant collector George Forrest collected artemisia pony for the first time in the Watershed between Lijiang and Nu rivers in Western Yunnan. For the next 102 years, no one collected it in the wild, and it was rediscovered in 2015.