For more than a decade, Dradul has worked as a guardian of a wetland near Mapam Yumco Lake, which, nestled at an altitude of over 4,500 meters in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, is the world's highest freshwater lake.
Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, has been recognized as an International Wetland City, a title granted under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Xizang Daily reported.
Yu Wenhao, project manager of an intelligent monitoring platform of the Tangbei area of Sanjiangyuan National Park, can still vividly recall the hurdles he faced while building a monitoring station right at the headwaters of the Yangtze River.
The Xizang autonomous region remains one of the best places in the world in terms of its ecological environment, with ecological and environmental quality generally remaining stable, according to the region's 2024 Environmental Bulletin, released on Thursday.
Nagchu, China's highest city at an average elevation of over 4,500 meters, has achieved the seemingly unachievable: it is no longer "the city without trees".