China News Agency, Xining, October 8 (Qi Zengbei) "Through the long-term and unremitting fight against poaching, Hoh Xil has not had any criminal cases of poaching for 13 consecutive years." On the 8th, Lei Wensheng, member of the Party Committee of Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department and director of the Political Department He said at a special press conference on the "Ten Years in Qinghai" held by the Information Office of the Qinghai Provincial People's Government.
Hoh Xil is located in the west of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. The protected area covers an area of 45,000 square kilometers and has an average altitude of 4,600 meters.
Hoh Xil is currently the largest "no-man's land" protected area in China and the hometown of Fuwa Yingying, the mascot of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Tibetan antelope, known as "soft gold", became famous. Driven by huge profits, a large number of criminals took the opportunity to enter Hoh Xil to hunt and kill Tibetan antelope, and the number dropped sharply from 200,000 to insufficient. 20,000.
In December 1997, China officially approved and announced Hoh Xil as a national nature reserve; in April 2016, the Sanjiangyuan area where Hoh Xil is located was identified as China's first pilot area for the reform of the national park system; in September 2016, the world's natural protection The alliance announced that the threat level of Tibetan antelope was reduced from endangered to vulnerable; in July 2017, Hoh Xil was successfully applied for the World Heritage List, becoming China's 51st World Natural Heritage; on September 30, 2021, the State Council approved the establishment of Sanjiangyuan National Park , Sanjiangyuan National Park was included in the list of the first batch of national parks.
From 2006 to the present, there has been no poaching gunshots in the Hoh Xil no man's land, the number of Tibetan antelopes has recovered to more than 70,000, and the protection level of Tibetan antelopes has also been downgraded from endangered species to near-threatened species.
Lei Wensheng said at the press conference that based on the strategic goal of building a demonstration province of national parks, Qinghai Province has established China's first national park police corps, optimized and integrated police resources, and built diversified structures in key ecological sectors such as Sanjiangyuan, Qilian Mountains, and Qinghai Lake. the institutional system, and strive to improve the effectiveness of policing.
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