The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world" and "Asia's water tower," serves as a vital ecological security barrier for China. Its ecosystem is dominated by grasslands, which are ...

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The road, constructed on the Pamir Plateau at an altitude of more than 4,200 meters with a 1,000-meter drop in height, is hailed as the "plateau ...

Qinghai province in the plateau’s northeast has large populations of Hui and Mongols as well as Tibetans, and boasts China’s largest lake, the location of the nation’s first nuclear weapons ...

The new permafrost stability map of the plateau and related studies were published in the Science China Earth Sciences journal.

The loess plateau is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, a country of windblown “yellow earth” that erodes into the Yellow River and gives the North China plain its fertility. Walled off ...

20, 2019 shows a view of a mountain road in Tajik Autonomous County of Taxkorgan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The road, constructed on the Pamir Plateau at an altitude of ...