China will invest 2.55 billion yuan in the ecological construction of the sources of its three major rivers in Qinghai province.

The sources of the rivers are a unique wetland well concentrated in biodiversity at an altitude. It is also an area with the most vulnerable and primitive bio-system.

The area became a provincial nature reserve in May of 2000. The provincial government decides to withdraw all animal husbandry from the area and leave the grassland to nature.

(www.cenews.com.cn March 10, 2003)