China has vowed to protect the
environment while it builds a 634-km road crossing in the most
vulnerable parts of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
The road, which will link the counties
of Gonghe and Yushu in Qinghai Province, is the first to cross the
Sanjiangyuan area -- the headwater region for the three major rivers in
East Asia: Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Lancang River.
Work crews have been asked to preserve
the meadow, which is being removed during construction and then replant
it along the road after the road is built.
The ecology is vulnerable in
Sanjiangyuan and once damaged the grassland is difficult to restore,
said Song Fanghua, chief engineer for the construction under Qinghai
Zhengping Road and Bridge Corporation.
The money spent on protecting the
environment during the construction of the Gonghe-Yushu road has cost
300 million yuan (47.2 million U.S. dollars), about three percent of the
total investment and an unprecedented figure in road building history
in Qinghai, said Nachitse, deputy head of the Gonghe-Yushu road project.
"We aim for a 'seamless' construction, which means the construction leaves no marks on the environment," the official said.
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