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Brief Introduction of Qinghai Province

Qinghai Province lies in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is renowned for its Qinghai Lake, the largest inland salt lake in China. In addition, Qinghai has been considered to be the forefather of lofty mountains and source of the major rivers in China. The magnificent and towering Kunlun Mountain, Qilian Mountain, Tanggula Mountain and Bayankala Mountain, etc. are grand while the surging, roaring and age-old Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Mekong River and Heihe River, etc. are very mysterious and attractive.

Qinghai is topographically high in the west and low in the east, most of its area belongs to the Roof of the World. Its altitude ranges from 1,600 meters to 6,860 meters above sea level with its average altitude being over 3,000 meters. Qinghai is adjacent to Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from all around with its distance being 1,200 km from west to east and 800 km from north to south and area being 720 thousand km². Riyue Mountain functions as the boundary of agricultural area in the east and animal husbandry area in the west with their total area accounting for 4% and 95% of the total area respectively. There are 6 autonomous prefectures, 1 region and 1 city under the jurisdiction of Qinghai Province, including Haixi Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haidong Region and Xining City with the number of population being 5.54 million. Qinghai is inhabited by many ethnic groups of people, of whom, the population of minority groups accounts for 2.54 million. Furthermore, the area of autonomous prefectures for minority groups accounts for 98% of the total area of Qinghai Province.

Qinghai plays a strategically important geographical role in China. As a main railway artery, the accessing of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has made it possible to go through Qinghai from east up to west. Moreover, the completion of the Qinghai-Xinjiang Railway will make Qinghai become a transportation pivot connecting eastern China with western China, southwestern with northwestern, as well as inland with border areas.

Qinghai also plays a strategically important ecological role in China. The wetland of Qinghai covers an area of 51 thousand km² and boasts the most rivers in Asia, even in the world. Qinghai is reputed as the Water Tower of China from where 49% water flow of the Yellow River, 26% water flow of the Yangtze River and 15% water flow of the Mekong River originate. Meanwhile, as a land full of diversified natural conditions and biodiversity, Qinghai not only boasts various types of vegetations, including forests, shrubs, pastural lands, deserts, meadows and aquatic plants, but also owns 270 kinds of terrestrial vertebrate animals, 294 kinds of birds and more than 200 types of wild plants. Therefore, the eco-system of Qinghai Province is relatively sensitive. The eco-environment of Qinghai not only affects the sustainable development of Qinghai, but also is related with the subsistence and development of Chinese Nation, even the eco-safety of the world.

Equally important is that Qinghai plays a strategically important resourceful role in China. It has abundant resources, including considerable deposit of hydropower, optothermal and mineral resources. Of the total 129 kinds of proved mineral resources, the deposit of 54 kinds rank top ten, that of 23 kinds rank top three and that of 9 kinds rank top one in China. Moreover, it also owns rich salt lake, oil and natural gas, non-ferrous metal, gold, nonmetallic mineral, hydropower and optothermal resources which are the advantageous resources in China.