Tourism has become an important channel for green growth and higher incomes for farmers and herdsmen.
In 2017, Tibet hosted more than 25.61 million visitors, and its revenues totaled 37.94 billion yuan, representing 28.95 percent of the region's GDP; Qinghai received 34.84 million visitors, and its revenues totaled 38.15 billion yuan, representing 14.44 percent of the province's GDP, according to the white paper.
Green energy also developed rapidly on the Plateau which is rich in hydropower, solar energy, geothermal energy, and other green energies, said the white paper.
To monitor eco-environmental changes on the Plateau, China has set up a complete monitoring and early-warning system that integrates air and land networks.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a landmark project, demonstrating the guidance given by sci-tech innovation to green development.
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in its fourth and fifth assessment reports, the railway offers a successful example in building "green" railways adapted to climate change. Science magazine in the United States published an article on April 27, 2007, describing the railway as "an ecological miracle."
The white paper, however, noted that the Plateau still faces many ecological challenges, including glacier retreat, melting permafrost, and other growing disaster risks due to global warming, and prominent contradictions between protection and development in the course of economic growth.
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