BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have conducted high-precision mapping of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, providing a reference for engineering planning and ecosystem management in the area. Permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is sensitive to global climate change. However, there is a lack of long-term data for ...
SUR le plateau Qinghai-Tibet, d'une altitude moyenne de 4 000 m, se dressent des chaînes de montagnes imposantes, dont les monts Kunlun, Karakorum, Gangdisê, Himalaya et Hengduan. On y trouve également le célèbre mont Qomolangma et le grand canyon du fleuve Yarlung Zangbo.
Le pont du chemin de fer Qinghai-Tibet qui enjambe la rivière Lhassa. Située dans le sud-ouest de la Chine, la région autonome du Tibet ne cessera de fasciner ses visiteurs par son histoire, sa culture, ses infrastructures, son climat exceptionnel et son relief luxuriant.
QINGHAI-TIBET RAILWAY. The world's highest and longest railway stretches 1,956 km long on the roof of the world, crossing plateaus, mountains, lakes and a variety of landscapes. Many people heading for Tibet prefer the train to flights to give themselves a transition to get better acclimatized to the thin air of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Along ...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is known as the Roof of the World, the Third Pole and the Water Tower of Asia. "The plateau is an important shield for China's ecological security. Therefore, the introduction of the law is of great significance," said Yuan Jie, head of the administrative law section of the Legislative Affairs Commission under the NPC ...
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.
Chinese researchers unravel how Qinghai-Tibet Plateau rose to its height 15:32:17 BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese geologists revealed when and how the Central Tibetan Valley elevated from a low valley into its current soaring height, providing new clues to the formation of the roof of the world. ...
China's top legislature on Wednesday adopted a law to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world." E-mail lunthesis@163 Phone 0551-65179860-203
According to the study published online earlier this week in the journal Science Advances, the central and southern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau rose to between 3,500 meters and 4,500 meters around 26 million to 21 million years ago. The findings challenge the widely held belief that the plateau reached a height of 4,600 meters as early as 40 million ...
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 genera on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
L'étude, publiée samedi dans le journal Science Advances, révèle que la fermeture de l'océan Néotéthys dans l'ère mésozoïque et la formation ultérieure du plateau Qinghai-Tibet ont probablement été causées par une double subduction, un processus géodynamique dans lequel deux plaques l'une derrière l'autre s'enfoncent de manière ...
Exhibition halls of Tibetan architecture, of Tibetan costumes, of Tibetan calligraphy art, of silk road and of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau civilization can be seen in this museum. Photo/VCG Editor：He Chang Source： Youth Time： 15:38:00 PHOTO. Wintersweet flowers bloo; Sunrise glow envelops se; Sunrise awaken ancient g ...
The map shows that the total area of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, excluding glaciers and lakes, is approximately 1.15 million square kilometers. The new permafrost stability map on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and related study results have been published in the journal Science China Earth Sciences. Enditem
China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has made a breakthrough in mineral exploration.
With the highest elevation in the world's mid-latitude region, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is highly sensitive to the impact of global warming. The region is known as "the water tower of Asia" as it houses abundant glaciers vital to the regional water cycle and water resources in downstream areas. Enditem
Wang Zhongyu, the general manager of Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company, said at the Forum for the Ten Year Anniversary of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on June 25th in Lhasa. On July 1st, 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway began formal operation. Starting from Xining in Qinghai Province on the east and all the way to Lhasa on the west, the railway has a ...
The law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a new addition to China's laws for special regions, following the enactment of the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, and the Black Soil Protection Law. However, the significance of the new law goes far beyond the plateau region.
LANZHOU, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered geographical isolation, natural selection, and hybridization could have together promoted the species diversification of numerous plant genera on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is characterized by a high number of endemic plant species.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspects the achievements made in comprehensively harnessing environmental problems and protecting biodiversity at the Qinghai Lake, in Gangcha County of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, …
In a study concerning the impact of the rise of the Himalayas and Gangdise Mountains over the environment, researchers Ding Lin and Deng Tao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) unveiled the mysterious past of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
It rose rapidly to become a part of what is now the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, at an elevation over 4,000 meters between 38 and 29 million years ago, according to the study.
Photo taken on May 17, 2019 shows a village in Bome County of Nyingchi Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have found that the southeastern region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau went through great climatic and vegetation changes from desert to forest due to a topography shift 44 million …
It is an important survey area of the country's second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that began in June 2017. After conducting surveys on plateau lakes, including Lake Namtso, the researchers have obtained plentiful first-hand data, which provide a scientific basis to know more about the current situation of ...
The country recognizes the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a crucial ecological security barrier and, in 2023, specifically enacted a law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This legislation requires relevant local governments to fulfill their responsibilities in ecological restoration and protection, ecological risk prevention ...
"The strongest net carbon sink effect along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occurs at an altitude of 4,000 meters," said Wei Da, a researcher at the institute who coauthored a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal of the academy in the United States.
Efforts must be made to build a new modern socialist Tibet that is united, prosperous, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful, President Xi Jinping said in a speech delivered during the seventh Central Symposium on Tibet work, stressing that conserving the ecology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the greatest contribution to the survival ...
China issued a white paper about ecological progress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is a key eco-safety barrier in China and Asia, and a focus of the country's drive to promote ecological progress.
Die Qinghai-Tibet-Eisenbahn durchquert die ganze Hoh-Xil-Region, die ein Ort ist, den die tibetischen Antilopen unvermeidlich durchqueren müssen. Zugunsten der wilden Tiere wurden hier 33 große Brücken, die insgesamt über 58 km lang sind, als Durchgangskorridor für wilde Tieren errichtet.
*The law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a new addition to China's laws for special regions, following the enactment of the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, and the Black Soil Protection Law.
The highest step of the typical 'ladder topography' is formed by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the average height of over 4,000 meters, with the Kunlunshan range, Qilianshan range and Hengduan mountain chain as the division between this step and the second one.
Located in southwest China, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers the entire Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, in addition to parts of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Xinjiang. It is about 2.6 million square km in area and most of it lies at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level.
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BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The discovery of fossilized palm leaves on the cold and high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has led scientists to make new conclusions on when the plateau reached its current height. Su Tao, a leading scientist of the study from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, said the central part of the plateau did not ...
Tibet makes progress in prehistoric archaeology research; First Tibetan TED speaker held a story-sharing meeting in Lhasa; Over 1.1 mln folios of ancient texts archived at Tibet's Potala Palace; Thousand-year-old wild yak dance; cented tea planted in a village in Nagqu, Tibet; Major lakes in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau see significant water increase
A village in Bome County of Nyingchi Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau plays an essential role in enhancing the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) circulation under global warming.
The area of lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has expanded by over 10,000 square kilometers over the past 30 years according to researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute. There are around 60,000 lakes on the plateau, covering an area of approximately 50,000 sq km. ...