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Description: This project reports on plant functional traits, vegetation, ecosystem, and climate data in response to climate change experiments and along a 1000 m elevational gradient in the Gongga Mountains, Sichuan Province, China. Across four sites along the elevational gradient, we conducted whole-community TransPlant warming and cooling experiments and passive Open Top chamber (OTC) warming experiments. In these experiments we measured plant community composition and structure, plant population dynamics, plant functional traits, carbon fluxes, and climate. The data were collected between 2012 and 2020 as part of several Chinese and Norwegian research projects and the international Plant Functional Traits Courses 1 and 2 (PFTC1 and PFTC2). Methodology and final plant community, trait, and climate data are further described in the associated data paper (Vandvik et al., Scientific Data), the code for extracting and cleaning data is available at GitHub (https://github.com/Plant-Functional-Trait-Course/PFTC_1_2_China) and more information about the projects and courses can be found at our web pages (https://www.uib.no/en/btf).