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2021-03-03 10:05:08 GMT2021-03-03 18:05:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
XINING, March 3 (Xinhua) Northwest China s Qinghai Province will push forward the construction of a national park cluster to improve the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Having built two national parks around Sanjiangyuan, home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, as well as the Qilian Mountains, Qinghai has integrated 109 nature reserves of various levels to make 79 in total, said Li Xiaonan, head of the provincial forestry and grassland bureau.
National parks account for 52.2 percent of the province s total nature reserve area, which has been expanded by another 34,100 square km and now makes up 38.42 percent of the province s total land area.
XINING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) Qinghai Province in northwest China, dubbed the water tower of China, has created 145,100 public posts engaged in ecological conservation, authorities said Tuesday. The posts have been set up for protecting the grasslands, forests and wetlands of the province, home to the Sanjiangyuan (Three-River-Source) National Park, Li Xiaonan, head of the provincial forestry and grassland bureau, told a press conference held amid the legislative and political advisory sessions of the province. The annual average per capita income of 17,200 ecological guards has reached 21,600 yuan (about 3,350 U.S. dollars), Li said. He said the province paid farmers and herders a total of 1.87 billion yuan in compensation for losses incurred due to ecological protection in 2020, with many of them taking jobs as ecological guards.