Qinghai takes big steps in ecological protection, economic prosperity

Qinghai province in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has focused on both ecological protection and economic prosperity in the past 10 years, Xin Changxing, secretary of the Communist Party of China Qinghai Provincial Committee, said at a news conference on Wednesday.

"For the past 10 years, we have increased the number of real-time environmental monitoring cameras from six to 46, through which we have observed Tibetan antelopes, Tibetan wild donkeys and wild yaks appearing more frequently," Xin said. "They are good barometers of the good natural conditions and harmony between man and nature in the province."

For the past 10 years, the population of Tibetan antelopes has recovered from less than 20,000 to 70,000, Tibetan wild donkeys have increased to 80,000, while the amount of Przewalski's naked carp, a unique species in Qinghai Lake, has increased 42-fold.