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Workers clean up trash on plateau highway
June 23, 2021
More than 1,000 workers cleaned up trash along a 200-kilometer section of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in Qinghai province on Monday after reports of extensive litter along the highway captured people's attention on social media.
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Tibet makes progress against encroaching sand
June 23, 2021
With an investment of 523 million yuan ($80 million), the Tibet autonomous region completed desertification control projects on more than 1,390 square kilometers of land during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), Tibet Daily reported.
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Seven decades on, Tibet ecology a success story
June 19, 2021
The Tibet autonomous region has made steady progress in addressing desertification along with other environmental issues in recent years as it seeks to build an ecological security shield on the frigid Qinghai-Tibet plateau in Southwest China, a regional government official said on Friday.
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Tibet environmental quality improving steadily
June 4, 2020
LHASA - Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region remains one of the areas with the best environmental quality globally, with stable local biodiversity and ecosystems in 2019, according to a report issued Thursday.
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Mountains get seasonal cleaning in Tibet
May 13, 2020
More than 6 metric tons of waste was collected in three weeks on three mountains in the Tibet autonomous region, the region's sports bureau said on Monday.
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Tibet to reinforce reforestation in 2020
March 12, 2020
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has planned to continue to reinforce its reforestation in 2020, expecting 62,820 hectares of land to be planted with trees in the year, China Tibet News reported on Tuesday.
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Tibet has 667,000 people engaged in environmental protection
March 6, 2019
To conserve the ecosystem while eradicating poverty, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region hired 309,000 farmers and herders as forest rangers in 2018, bringing the total number of people engaged in environmental protection to 667,000.
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Ecological advances on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau help farmers
July 19, 2018
The environmental quality and living conditions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have steadily improved thanks to government efforts, and local residents have been the economic beneficiaries due to the advent of green industry and ecological compensation policies, a white paper issued on July 18 said.