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New National Park

China has approved a plan to establish a national park at Qinghai Lake in Qinghai Province, local authorities said on June 7.

Gao Jingyu, deputy head of the protection and utilization administration in the Qinghai Lake scenic area, said that the administration will strive to complete the establishment of the Qinghai Lake National Park in 2024.

Qinghai Lake, located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is an important ecological barrier and the country’s largest inland saltwater lake, with an area of 4,625.6 square km in 2021.

In recent years, the

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