Must-Go! These 5 national parks in China officially announce!

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China officially designates first group of national parks.

These national parks involve 10 provincial-level regions in the country, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hainan, Fujian, and Jiangxi, according to the country’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA).

Located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and with a protected area of 190,700 square kilometers, the Three-River-Source National Park makes sure that the sources of the Yangtze River, Yellow River, and Lancang River are well protected.

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Spanning the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, the Giant Panda National Park, with a protected area of 22,000 square kilometers, has the greatest concentration of wild giant pandas and is the animal’s main habitat. More than 70 percent of the wild giant pandas in China are protected by the national park.

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The Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park straddles northeast China’s Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and has a protected area of 14,100 square kilometers. China’s largest and only populations of wild Siberian tiger and Amur leopard with groups formed through reproduction are distributed in the park.

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The Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, with a protected area of 4,269 square kilometers, has preserved the most complete and diverse island tropical rainforests in China. The park is the only habitat of Hainan gibbon, the world’s most endangered primate. It is considered a treasure house of tropical biodiversity and genetic resources, and has become a prime example of inheriting precious natural resources and protecting biodiversity for tropical rainforests on islands.

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The Wuyishan National Park straddles southeast China’s Fujian province and east China’s Jiangxi province and has a protected area of 1,280 square kilometers. With the world’s most complete and largest primary mid-subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest ecosystem among those at the same latitude, the national park is a treasure trove of flora and fauna in southeast China.

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Source:peopledaily

Editor: Crystal H

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