Where is the beauty of Hoh Xil?

Hoh Xil

Located in the western part of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province

It is a shining coordinate in the global ecological map

Rare wild animals such as Tibetan antelopes have lived and multiplied here for generations.

Aerial photography of Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yan

July 2017

Hoh Xil

Listed as a World Natural Heritage Site

Filled the gap of no world natural heritage in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Where is the beauty?

The beauty of ecology

Aerial photography of Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Gang

Snow-capped mountains and rivers in Hoh Xil. Xinhua News Agency

The Chumar River in Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Long

Tuotuo River in Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Gang

The beauty of animals

This land with an average altitude of over 4,600 meters is vast and desolate.

It is called "the forbidden zone for human life"

However, it contains a rich and complete biological gene bank on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

There are 107 lakes larger than 1 square kilometer.

There are more than 230 species of wild animals...

This is a group of Tibetan antelopes active in the Zhuonai Lake area of ​​Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Long

Tibetan antelopes roaming in Hoh Xil. Photo by Pan Binbin, Xinhua News Agency

Tibetan wild donkeys are active in the Hoh Xil area. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Gang

This is a wild yak photographed in Hoh Xil. Photo by Pan Binbin, Xinhua News Agency

This is a Tibetan antelope photographed in Hoh Xil. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Song Zhongyong)

This is a wolf photographed in Hoh Xil. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Song Zhongyong)

A Tibetan fox hunts prey near Wudaoliang in Hoh Xil. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Sun Hong)

This is a photo of a mountain vulture photographed in Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Yubin

This is a brown bear photographed in Hoh Xil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Long

The beauty of plants

In addition to the abundant wildlife

Hoh Xil also has rich plant resources

Blue-white gentian (Photo courtesy of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Coptis japonica (Photo provided by Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Among the more than 150 species of cushion plants in the world

There are 8 families, 15 genera and 50 species distributed in Hoh Xil

One third of the world's

It accounts for one fifth of the total plant species in the Hoh Xil region.

Creeping water cypress branches (Photo courtesy of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Cushion-shaped Ceratoides quinoa (Photo provided by Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The plants in the Kekexili area have another characteristic

Gorgeous appearance

Meconopsis spinulosa (Photo courtesy of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Since there are fewer insects in the Hoh Xil area

To attract more insects to pollinate

Plants must work hard on their appearance

And the bright colors

To attract more animals

Help them fulfill their mission of reproducing offspring

Yajiang Prunus mume (Photo provided by Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Anemone spheniscus (Photo courtesy of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Aconitum lumbinis (Photo courtesy of Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Plants in the Hoh Xil region

It is an important part of the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

It is of great significance to maintain the balance of the regional ecological environment

The beauty of harmony between man and nature

This is a Tibetan antelope photographed in Hoh Xil. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Song Zhongyong)

Tibetan antelopes are the spirits that leap in the Hoh Xil Mountains

To protect them

my country continues to increase its efforts in ecological protection

Protecting the reproduction and migration of Tibetan antelopes

Sanjiangyuan National Park Administration

Hoh Xil Management Office of the Yangtze River Source Park

Continuously carry out

Large scale, high density, high frequency

Mountain patrol operation

Rangers patrol the Zhuonai Lake area in Hoh Xil, which is known as the "birthing room for Tibetan antelopes." Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Yubin

There are no roads or communication signals in the hinterland of Hoh Xil

The team members normally patrol the mountains more than ten times a year.

Each group of 5 or 7 people

Each patrol takes at least 20 days

Up to 30 days

A patrol team member pulls a car in the rain in the Hoh Xil area. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Long

A short distance of more than 100 kilometers

They will have to walk for at least two full days.

Car breakdowns are commonplace

Each patrol is thousands of kilometers away.

Every year, I have to run thousands of kilometers in the wilderness

For decades

Hundreds of patrolmen have

Fighting against poaching, illegal mining and crossing in Hoh Xil

Fighting poachers

Fighting against the harsh natural environment

Protecting all living things in the "ecological pure land" with their youth and even their lives

Staff at Zhuonai Lake Conservation Station in Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve feeds milk to a Tibetan antelope calf. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Yubin

Hoh Xil

Where is the beauty?

Beauty in Ecology

Beauty in Animals

Beauty in plants

What is even more beautiful is the harmony between man and nature!

Reporter: Xue Yubin, Li Linhai, Zhou Shengsheng

Reporters: Pan Binbin, Kaya Meiduo