Photographers on Sept. 1 captured photos of black-winged stilts at a park in Longyan city, southeast China’s Fujian province.
With generous sunshine and abundant rainfall, southwest China’s Yunnan province is endowed with rich varieties of precious flowers and plants, being home to more than 2,100 decorative plants, among which at least 1,500 are flowering plants. Camellia, magnolia, lily, azalea, fairy primrose, orchid, herba meconopsis, and radix gentianae are eight of the best-known flowers of Yunnan.
Located in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Bosten Lake wetland has become a paradise for wild waterfowls, thanks to years of environmental protection. In recent years, the prefecture has continuously improved the lake's ecological environment through a slew of measures such as implementing wetland conservation and restoration projects and returning farmland back into forests and grasslands, which has turned the lake into an ideal habitat for wild waterfowl.
Photo of a traditional ethnic-minority village in the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (People's Daily Online/Hu Zunhui) The World Heritage application for the cultural landscape of the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest in southwest China's Yunnan Province officially got underway in June 2010.
