Yak capital of the world
Yak capital of the world 世界牦牛之都 shìjiè máoniú zhī dū”. As China’s appetite for beef grows quickly, northern Tibet (Qinghai/Amdo province) sees an opportunity for branding and value adding
national parks
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Wilderness
literally “opening up the great west”, announced in 1999 by outgoing leader Jiang Zemin, a slogan that never grew into a mass campaign mobilising the masses, instead involving accelerated investment in hub cities of western China
Western Development Strategy
literally “opening up the great west”, announced in 1999 by outgoing leader Jiang Zemin, a slogan that never grew into a mass campaign mobilising the masses, instead involving accelerated investment in hub cities of western China
Tragedy of the commons
Tragedy of the commons 公地悲剧 gongdi beiju, a phrase hardly ever heard in China, which nonetheless remains foundational for party-state policy towards the biggest grasslands in the world.
Trafficking wild animals
Trafficking wild animals. 贩卖野生动物 fànmài yěshēng dòngwù Since the eruption of the Covid pandemic, China’s appetite for wild animals has been blamed for the zoonotic jump of the virus from animals to humans.
Three River Source
Three River Source, Sanjiangyuan, གཙང་གསུམ་འབྱུང་ཡུལ།༼རྨ་འབྲི་རྫ་གསུམ་འབྱུང་ཡུལ།༽ 三江源, a newly invented term in Chinese for the sources of the Ma Chu (Yellow), Dri Chu (Yangtze) and Za Chu (Mekong), all originating in Tibet.
Soil degradation
China has many mountains and many landscapes unsuited to intensive agriculture that starts with ploughing and exposing the soil. Maintaining food security for a population of 1.4 bn people remains a high priority.
Sky river
China’s rivers, a bonus enhancement of the rain made to fall within the catchment of the Yellow River,
Rural surplus labour
Rural surplus labour 农村富余劳动 nóngcūn fùyú láodòng ཞིང་སྡེའི་ངལ་རྩོལ་ནུས་ཤུགས་ལྷག་མ། farmers and livestock producers, usually in remote areas classified by security state assessments as security risks, or unproductive land users in areas rezoned as ecological, in which economic activity is banned.
Returning non-productive cultivated farmlands to forests
Returning non-productive cultivated farmlands to forests, 退耕还林 tuigeng huanlin རྨོ་བསྐྱུར་ནགས་གསོ། sometimes in English known as the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), a policy premised on reversing earlier food security policy.