The "Go to West" strategy not only quickens the steps of ecological protection in the area of the sources of the Three Rivers( the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Lancang River), but also raises the ethnic groups' consciousness on ecological protection, as well as pushes the regional economic development.

On June 14, news came from Qinghai Provincial Forestry Bureau that in recent years the provincial committee of the CPC( the Communist Party of China), the provincial government and the State Bureau of Forestry had been politically and financially inclining to the three southern prefectures of Qinghai ( Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures of Huangnan, Guoluo and Yushu), the ring area of the Qinghai Lake and the Chaidam Basin, where the minority nationalities live in compact communities.

Over 50 million yuan has been funded accumulatively since 2001 to wild plants and anima's protection and nature reserves' establishment.

By far, 5 national nature reserves including the sources of the Three Rivers, the Qinghai Lake, Cocohili, Mengda in Xunhua County and Longbao in Yushu Prefecture and 3 provincial nature reserves have been established , covering an total area of 0.206 million sqm.
 
(Qhnews.com June 16, 2004)