A law to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was adopted on April 26 at a standing committee session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature. It will take effect on September 1. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is known as the Roof of the World, the Third Pole and the Water Tower of Asia.
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Since 2012, the State Grid's Qinghai Electricity Power Company would conduct its annual centralized maintenance of the Qinghai-Tibet grid interconnection project, whose grid lines are laid at the plateau with an average altitude of 4,500 meters. Low temperatures, lack of oxygen and strong winds on the plateau challenge the operation and maintenance of the …
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The shutterbug hails from Namse Township in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Located in the source region of the Lancang River, Namse is a part of the Sanjiangyuan National Park nestled at an average altitude of more than 4,700 meters. The Sanjiangyuan area is known as China's "water …
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The plateau has been warming faster than any other region in the country over the past 60 years, according to the findings of the study released on the China Meteorological Administration website on Tuesday. From 1961 to 2020, temperatures in the region have climbed steadily at a rate of 0.35 degrees Celsius every 10 years, more than …
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The sutra streamer, known as "wind horse flag", is regarded as an auspicious symbol to pray for happiness in the heart of the Tibetan people.Photo shows colorful sutra streamers swinging on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. [Photo/] The sutra streamer, known as "wind horse flag", is regarded as an auspicious symbol to …
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An ongoing scientific expedition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has already returned significant discoveries, providing valuable resources for global ecological conservation efforts. China commenced the expedition in June 2017, 40 years after the first research trip to the plateau by Chinese scientists. Slated to last from five to 10 years ...
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The law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passed at a standing committee session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will take effect on Sept. 1. The law is a new addition to China's laws for special regions, following the enactment of the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Yellow River ...
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A scenic view of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. (PHOTO: VCG) By Wang Xiaoxia. On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 8,830 meters above sea level, stands the world's highest weather station. Set up in May 2022 by Chinese scientists a few steps away from Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, the station had its first visit from a scientific …
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Fairies of the Plateau. Hoh Xil sits in the northwest of Qinghai at an average elevation of 4,600 meters. Due to the thin air and a moonscape pitted with quicksand and swamps, the region has been designated an "uninhabited area." But it is home to Tibetan antelopes, the "fairies of the plateau."
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President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed efforts to foster the new development paradigm, promote the vitalization of the seed industry and advance ecological and environmental protection as well as sustainable development of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee …
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2021/04/14 Xinhua. Chinese researchers have recently revealed the characteristics and source of the long-range transport of microplastics (MPs) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the Roof of the World. This boosts the understanding of the atmospheric transport of MPs to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and provides a new perspective on the ...
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Anti-virus efforts safeguard residents on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. 2020/02/05 Xinhua. XINING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Qinghai Province will soon publish a Tibetan version of the guidelines on novel coronavirus prevention, to help ethnic minorities in the province, Tibetans in particular, fight against the epidemic.
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LHASA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Despite the biting cold at an altitude of about 4,500 meters on the "world roof," workers were busy installing photovoltaic (PV) panels. With the last module switched on, the 120,000-kW PV power generation project in the city of Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, started operation on Dec. 25.
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XINING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Altitude, vegetation and temperature collectively contribute to the variation in oxygen concentration on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Chinese researchers have found. The finding has challenged a view long held by researchers from home and abroad that altitude is the only factor that determines oxygen levels worldwide.
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GONGGA Contributes to Global Carbon Budget The photo shows Qiongmu Gangri peak in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. GCP's approval of China's GONGGA, one of the most recent achievements of the second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research, indicates that Chinese scientists have shifted their role from data contributors to leaders in …
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* The 2023 Mt. Qomolangma expedition is part of the second comprehensive scientific expedition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, initiated in 2017. MOUNT QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese expedition team on Tuesday reached the summit of Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, …
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Tibetan medicine has been passed down on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for more than 2,000 years. As a traditional therapy of Tibetan medicine, the medicinal bathing was officially inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2018. ... This explains why many big pharmaceutical …
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It quenches thirst, keeps stomachs full, and helps with digestion. Yaks are also a means of transport on the plateau, the use of which can be traced more than 2,000 years ago. A piece of a yak saddle was found at the Shangshung site in Ngari, Tibet. For more than 2,000 years, the yak has carried nomads' belongings and roamed all over.
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The intense sunlight on the plateau has turned his skin a darker shade, while his cheeks are rosy due to the high altitude. Though hailing from central China's Hunan Province, he has dedicated most of his time to biological research and environmental protection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also known as the "roof of the world."
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Shen Yongping, a researcher at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, noted that in recent years the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has faced challenges such as reduced ecosystem stability and escalating pressure on resources and the environment due to climate change and increased human activities ...
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The Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) cooperated with drilling companies to fasten the 81-square-meter platform with four anchors, each weighing over 200 kilograms and drawn by winding engines. At 6:45 pm, on August 3, the submersible drill succeeded in targeting the location of the rock core.
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LHASA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Tibet Electric Power Co., Ltd. of the State Grid said it transmitted 8.98 billion kWh of electricity out of the region from 2015 to this summer. All the electricity sent out was generated by clean energy, the company said. In 2015, Tibet sent electricity to neighboring Qinghai Province for the first time, with 1. ...
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Ge Yuxiu takes photos of wildlife in Qinghai province. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] From soldier to wildlife photographer, Shandong native advocates for conserving endangered animals through powerful, moving images in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau "Cease to struggle and you cease to live." This is the motto Ge Yuxiu lives by.
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Aerial photo taken on Sept. 15, 2021 shows a river near the Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) LANZHOU, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered geographical isolation, natural selection, and hybridization could have together promoted the species diversification of numerous plant …
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LI LIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE. China's top legislature on Wednesday adopted a law to protect and conserve the fragile ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with the law taking effect on Sept 1. Passed at a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the law emphasizes protection as its cornerstone, adhering …
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LOCATED in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Jiuzhai Valley stretches more than 50 kilometers towards the Sichuan Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Jiuzhai Valley, or literally the valley of nine villages, got its name because there are nine Tibetan villages in the valley.
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Find detailed information on Metal Ore Mining companies in China, including financial statements, sales and marketing contacts, top competitors, and firmographic insights. ... Qinghai (213) Tibet (167) Zhejiang (144) Chongqing (143) Hainan (139) Beijing (48) Shanghai (36) Tianjin (36) Ningxia (33)
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Yue Chunchang, head of the company, said that in the past, due to power shortage, the company would receive a notice of power outage for at least one or two days when power consumption peaks in winter and summer. ... "Now we purely use clean energy from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which can also reduce coal consumption." Staff members of the ...
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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest and youngest plateau in the world, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. Stretching 2.58 million square km, it covers not only the entire Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, but also parts of four other provincial-level regions in west China, namely Xinjiang Uygur …
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Through the East-West 'Pairing' initiative, China's more developed eastern regions have assisted less-developed western regions in their development. Since its roll-out, Tibet has received 19.52 billion yuan ($2.92 billion) which it has used to fund more than 313 poverty alleviation projects. Targeted poverty alleviation.
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According to data provided by the National Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company, up to May 6, the Qinghai-Tibet networking project has already conveyed 3.3billion kW/h to Tibet, equivalent to 416,900 tons of standard coal transport, which is a reduction in carbon emissions of 1.03mlillion tons.
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