【Explanation】The Qinghai-Tibet Line is the main artery into Tibet, there are six post stations along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Golmud Station next to National Highway 109 is an important part of the ecological protection station of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

【Contemporaneous】Staff Ye Yuansheng

One of the jobs of our post station includes picking up garbage, publicizing tourists, selling materials, some work for villagers to recycle garbage, and doing some environmental education projects at the Yangtze River Source Ethnic Primary School. Tourists will ask us for a garbage bag, and will spontaneously pick up garbage when they come down from the Qinghai-Tibet route, and take it to our Golmud post station for centralized processing.

Volunteers from all over the country gathered at the Qinghai-Tibet Green Station to participate in the volunteer action to protect the source of the Yangtze River, and through picking up garbage and environmental protection publicity, they enhanced the awareness and sense of responsibility of tourists and local residents on environmental protection, and contributed their own strength to the ecological protection and development along the Qinghai-Tibet route.

【During the same period】Volunteer Xie Qiao

Some things like what I do, it may be insignificant to our ecology, or to society, but it can attract a lot of volunteers, together to gather a big force, it may be a lake full of garbage, but we go to pick up garbage, or many people do these jobs every day, it slowly becomes clear, slowly become more and more animals to settle here, I think such things are very meaningful.

【Contemporaneous】Staff Wen Zhen

More and more people participate in this action of picking up garbage or environmental protection, in fact, the more people will be more powerful, and then the attention of the society will make the ecological environment here better.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with its endless peaks and vast grasslands, is also a habitat for many wild animals, but the problem of drivers and tourists discarding garbage in the past affects the surrounding ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the source area of the Yangtze River.

【During the same period】Yang Xin, President of China Green River Environmental Protection Promotion Association

Tuotuohe this place in 2013 was full of garbage, now the relative amount is greatly reduced, the cleanliness is also very high, through these years of protection, including the establishment of our Sanjiangyuan National Park, it is clear that the local everyone's awareness of environmental protection has been greatly improved, from one point can be seen, almost every township cadre, even every people, even every monk, the most talked about topic is ecological and environmental protection.

With the efforts of the local government and environmental protection organizations for more than ten years, the amount of garbage along the Qinghai-Tibet Line has been significantly reduced, the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been effectively improved, and more and more wild animals have been effectively protected.

By Chasentana in Golmud, Qinghai

Responsible Editor: [Luo Pan]