China Daily (Hong Kong)

Hot word: Ecological migration

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Ecological migration refers to people who migrate to other areas from regions that are ecological­ly vulnerable or suffering from serious environmen­tal degradatio­n.

In 2005, China began implementi­ng the first phase of the ecological protection plan for Sanjiangyu­an — the source of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers in Qinghai province — which is home to the country’s largest wetlands ecosystem.

On Aug 22, 2016, President Xi Jinping, in a 生态移民(shēngtài yímín)

visit to Changjiang­yuan village, which was establishe­d by Tibetan families that had migrated from Sanjiangyu­an in pursuit of better lives, stressed that ecological migration was essential for the protection of Sanjiangyu­an, and it should be properly organized and implemente­d.

The annual per capita income in Changjiang­yuan village was 22,828 yuan ($3,385) in 2017. All the schoolage children in the village have been

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admitted to nearby schools, and the school graduation rate reached 100 percent for years.

And thanks to the three-river-source protection and constructi­on first-stage project, in the past more than one decade, grass amount in three-river-source region has increased 30 percent. And water resource quantity there has increased 8 billion cubic meters, which is 560 times the amount of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

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