In Mongolian, Hoh Xil means beautiful girl, but the name often confuses those who only pay attention to appearance. In addition to the beautiful side, the real Hoh Xil is more cold and horrible. Follow the laws of nature, lucky people can see the beautiful scenery of Hoh Xil, and those who do the opposite can only wait for nature to punish them!
Qinghai Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve is located in the west of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with a total area of 4.5 million hectares (45,000 square kilometers). It is a nature reserve with well-preserved primitive ecological environment in the world at the beginning of the 20th century, and it is also one of the nature reserves with the largest area, the highest altitude and the richest wildlife resources built in China. Qinghai Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve mainly protects rare wild animals, plants and their habitats such as Tibetan antelope, wild yak, Tibetan wild donkey and Tibetan gazelle. 20 14 1 1 month, the application for World Natural Heritage in Hoh Xil, Qinghai Province started. 201On the afternoon of July 7th, 7 13, at the 4 1 World Heritage Conference held in Krakow, Poland, with the unanimous consent of the World Heritage Committee, Hoh Xil in Qinghai was approved to be included in the World Heritage List and became the 5th1World Heritage Site in China. 2017110/October, the national nature reserves of Hoh Xil, Qinghai, Altun Mountain, Xinjiang and Qiangtang, Tibet jointly issued an announcement prohibiting any unit or individual from arbitrarily entering the reserve for illegal crossing activities.
Hoh Xil Nature Reserve is located in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest Qinghai. It is an alpine platform spanning Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet provinces. The reserve borders Tibet in the west, Golmud Tanggula Township in the south, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the north and Qinghai-Tibet Highway in the east, with a total area of 45,000 square kilometers. The Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve in Qinghai has a high terrain and is controlled by geological and geomorphological structures. The mountains, wide valleys and basins in the area are arranged in a regular band in the northwest-southeast direction: from north to south, there are large and moderately undulating mountains and extremely high mountains composed of Ketage Mountain in Bocage and Malan Mountain-Daxuefeng Mountain in the east of Kunlun Mountain; Lacey Udan Lake-Hoh Xil Lake-Zhuonaihu Tibetan Antelope Aggregation Tibetan antelope gathering, Kusai Lake high-altitude lake basin belt; The small and undulating mountain belt of the Kekexili Mountain; Xijin Wulan Lake-Chuma River high-altitude wide valley lake basin belt; Dongbule Mountain-Wulan Wula Mountain is a mountainous belt with little ups and downs. Hoh Xil Nature Reserve is relatively low in the middle, high in the west and low in the east. The basic landform types are small and medium-sized undulating mountains and high-altitude hills, terraces and plains in the vast areas except the north and south edges.
There are 30 known species of mammals in Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve, belonging to 5 orders 12 families and 20 genera. There are 56 species of birds belonging to 10 order and 22 families. In addition, there are 2 species of schizothorax and 4 species of loach in this area, almost all of which are endemic to the plateau. There are only 1 species of reptiles in Qinghai. There are wild animals unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, such as wild yak, Tibetan antelope, wild donkey, white-lipped deer and brown bear. Hoh Xil is one of the regions with the richest animal resources in China, with more than 230 kinds of wild animals. Because of the high terrain, dry and cold climate, simple vegetation types, poor food conditions and hidden conditions, and simple animal composition. However, except for raptors, ungulates live in groups or groups, with a large population density and a large number.