China has established a research institute for national parks in the city of Xining, the capital of northwestern Qinghai Province.

 

中国在青海西宁建立了一座国家公园研究机构。
 

 

The institute, believed to be the country's first of the kind, will focus its research on issues including biodiversity conservation, bearing capacity of the ecological¹ environment and sustainable use of biological resources, in addition to developing key disciplines such as conservation biology, resource biology and restorable ecology.

 

The institute aims to build a system for monitoring and assessing the ecologic environment and providing early warnings against potential ecological risks. It also plans to build a display platform powered by big data and cloud computing² for scientific research and science popularization.

 

The institute, run by a board of directors and led by a director, was co-founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qinghai provincial³ government.

 

"The institute will provide scientific guidance and services for Sanjiangyuan national park, in a bid to realize the coordinated⁴ development of ecological protection and regional economy," said Zhao Xinquan, the academic director of the institute.

 

The national park in Sanjiangyuan, which literally⁵ means "the source of three rivers," was established to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang (Mekong) rivers.

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