Xinhua
China injected 1 billion yuan (158.4 million U.S. dollars) in 2011 to protect the natural environment of northwestern Sanjiangyuan, the headwaters of China's three major rivers.
The money was spent on afforestation projects and recovery of degraded grasslands in the area, Li Xiaonan, vice director of the Qinghai Sanjiangyuan Office, told Xinhua.
Sanjiangyuan, with an area of 150,000 square kilometers, is the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang rivers. The Lancang is also known as the Mekong, which originates from China and flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
The regional ecology significantly deteriorated in recent years due to global warming and excessive herding, before the government initiated a 7.5-billion-yuan program, which included the resettlement of 50,000 Tibetan herders in 2005.
2 comments:
i just wanted to point this out that no part of the mekong river flow through thailand and myanmar. if you look and study the map of the mekong river carefully, both thailand and myanmar only share the mekong river as their borderline, not flowing through these two countries. please make a distinction to say it right. the mekong shared the borders with thailand, myanmar with laos, but the mekong waterway does flow through china, laos and cambodia down to the delta region into the south china sea, ok! look at the map and see for yourself, ok!
good for china, it's about time they reform their environment law, etc..., you know.
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