Qinghai Lake to get $225 m facelift

More than 1.5 billion yuan ($225 million) will be spent over the next 10 years to restore the beauty of Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Governor Song Xiuyan said on Monday.

"The program will effectively protect and restore the ecological environment of the Qinghai Lake valley, gradually halt the falling water level in the lake, safeguard the ecological stability and improve conditions for production and living standards," Song said.

The program will be carried out in the counties of Gangcha, Haiyan, Tianjun and Gonghe. It will include wetland protection; harnessing of degraded grassland; grassland rodent and insect pest control and prevention; desertification control; tree planting; reverting pasture to grassland; and resident relocation for ecological protection, she said.