File photo taken on March 16, 2020 shows Wu Yonglin with the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve posing with Przewalski's gazelles in northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua) At present, there are 14 populations of Przewalski's gazelles near Qinghai Lake, with the total number increasing from some 300 in 1994 to over 2,700, Wu added.

As Arthur Holcombe, President of The Poverty Alleviation Fund, noted: "The great expanse of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the low density and dispersed nature of the population… complicated poverty reduction efforts."

The Sanjiangyuan area, located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the most important source of fresh water in China. Home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang rivers, it is known as "China's water tower." It is a wholly unique plateau wetland ecosystem and serves as an important ecological defense for the country.

Through the ecological relocation project, we have realized a win-win goal of helping herdsmen in northern Tibet shake off poverty and protecting the Changtang National Nature Reserve, Drulha said, noting that this is an important step in building Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into a national and even international highland in ecological …

Chinese lawmakers have started deliberating a draft law dedicated to conserving the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, considering the "unique" and "irreplaceable "role of the region for ecological security for both China and the rest of the world. In addition to measures on ecological conservation and remediation, efforts to …

XINING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Qinghai Province has made notable progress in promoting both ecological protection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and high-quality development over the past decade, officials said at a …

Chinese ecological wisdom shines in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau national park. * Populations of rare and endangered species recovering amid conservation efforts. * Ecological tourism plays big part in promoting community development and wildlife protection. * Harmonious coexistence between humans and nature is the core concept …

Lenghu is a small town with about 500 permanent residents at an average altitude of 2,800 meters, nestled on the Saishiteng Mountain of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

Tibetan tea is a typical kind of Chinese tea. After centuries of historical accretion, Tibetan tea has formed its own unique flavor and cultural charm. The Tibetan tea mainly produced in Ya'an in southwest China's Sichuan Province belongs to the most typical of black teas and is picked at an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level.

A chromium mining area in Lhokha, Tibet autonomous region, has taken a green development path in recent years to restore its natural environment. Known on the plateau for its chromium output, Chusum county is home of the Norbusa mining area of the ShanNan branch of the China Baowu Tibet Mining Company. It is the largest chromium …

BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of Asplenium in Qinghai province in the northwestern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Asplenium is one of the ferns with the richest species and the most complex evolutionary history. This …

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- After using satellites and cameras, Chinese researchers have managed to use tree ages to accurately record glacier changes that happened centuries ago in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the world's Third Pole. The plateau, with tens of thousands of glaciers, is at the headwaters of multiple rivers in Asia.

XINING -- The Fuxing bullet trains officially started operation on the Xining-Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on Saturday. With a total operating length of 829 km, it starts from Xining, capital of Northwest China's Qinghai province, in the east and passes through Huangyuan, Haiyan, Ulan, Delingha to Golmud Railway Station in the ...

LHASA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has, for the first time, drilled a lake sediment core in a deep lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to study the history of climate and environmental changes on the plateau.

BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The total water reserves of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are estimated to be more than 9 trillion cubic meters, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Tuesday. Dubbed "Asia's water tower," the plateau and its surrounding mountains are the birthplace of more than 10 major rivers in Asia. The …

This boosts the understanding of the atmospheric transport of MPs to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and provides a new perspective on the microplastic cycle, said Kang Shichang, a researcher of the Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have found that the loss of Arctic sea ice intensified the transport of pollutants, such as aerosols, to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, said the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Due to the influence of atmospheric circulation, aerosols emanating from South and Central Asia around the Qinghai-Tibet …

Situated in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as "the roof of the world" and "the water tower of Asia," Tibet is an important guarantor of China's environmental security.

Chinese scientists first looked to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world," as a potential observatory site in the 1990s and have located a series of observatory sites on the plateau since 2000, including one in Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2017, Tian Cairang, then deputy Party chief of the Lenghu ...

VILNIUS, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese documentary about life on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was screened on Wednesday here in the capital of Lithuania. Titled "Roof of the World", the first 4K ultra-high-definition documentary in China with a runtime of 90 minutes features Tibet's vast, gorgeous landscapes and its diligent people, while ...

Protection of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau urged. Visitors take photos near the north shore of Qinghai Lake in Gangca county, Qinghai province, on Aug 11. [Wang Zhuangfei/China Daily] Chinese lawmakers have started deliberating a draft law dedicated to conserving the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, considering the "unique" …

Producing Tibetan carpet, which is world famous, has for centuries been a necessity to help protect the Tibetan people against the bitterly cold weather on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Now, such carpets grace homes across the globe.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed continued efforts to protect the ecology of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau during an inspection tour in Qinghai Province from Tuesday to Wednesday. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, also called on the …

Wang said that in 10 years of operation for the railway, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company has diligently followed national environmental regulations and legal standards to build an ecological model for plateau railways in order to maintain the railway's reputation as "a Low-Carbon and Ecological Channel." They referenced management …

Wildlife thriving in high plateau. Diverse wildlife in close proximity to domesticated herds of animals in the Tibet autonomous region are increasingly commonplace thanks to the government's efforts in the development of nature reserves. Due to biodiversity protection efforts, the region has established 47 nature reserves …

After two years of monitoring, researchers selected the site in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the main body of which is the Qaidam Basin in the northwestern province of Qinghai, with an average altitude of 3,000 meters.

Great lake on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau takes on a new look. File photo taken on Sept. 11, 2019 shows birds and naked carp, a fish species endemic to the lake that once sharply declined due to over-fishing, at Qinghai Lake, northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Li Linhai) "The improving aquatic ecosystem of the Qinghai Lake has made it …

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, and viewed as China's major water conservation and ecological protection area.

In July 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway linking Lhasa and Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, went operational, ending the pre-railways period in Tibet. In August 2014, the Lhasa-Xigaze Railway opened for operation as the first extension line of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. In June 2021, when the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway was put into …

To understand what a "vast world" is, one must first set foot on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Passing through the plateau's Silk Road you can see its glorious and rich Tibetan medicine culture that has brought benefit to generations of plateau people, and has gradually become an indispensable part of their lives.