Work begins soon on huge national park
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A national park planned in the Sanjiangyuan area to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong (Lancang) rivers will start this year with building roads and installing surveillance cameras.
The administration bureau of Sanjiangyuan National Park said yesterday the park would have a budget of 1 billion yuan (US$145 million) this year for infrastructure construction.
The bureau started trial operation of the management of the national park, a vast wetland and grassland area located in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, last April. It is scheduled by 2020 to officially become China’s first national park as administered by the central government.
Under the national park management, the park will hire more than 10,000 wardens to patrol over 120,000 square kilometers, an area bigger than New York state.
Zhai Jinquan, a planning official with the bureau, said the park would this year build roads, visitor centers, preservation stations and sewage treatment facilities.
“The park is massive and sparsely populated. Most areas in the park do not have roads. Herdsmen can only ride horses to traverse the land,” he said.
Zhai said to enhance ecological protection and law enforcement work, the park would build roads and install a network for remote monitoring.
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