Qinghai lake nature preservation zone

　　Located in Gangcha, Haiyan and Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, Qinghai Lake nature preservation zone is the largest salt-water lake in China, whose area approximates to 4952 sq.km. It’s famous for a special kind of “Huang”fish and millions of migrant birds, also the well-known resort and natural reserve. Due to its ecologic dominance, it was authorized as the national nature reserve in 1997. In the lake area, there are six species of animals and 164 species of birds, in which the number off anser indicus latham, larus brunnicephalus and common cormorant reaches more than 400,000. Because of its importance to the local environment, Qinghai Lake Swamp was labeled as international swamp in 1992. In the future, it will play a more important role in national environment protection.