Zone to protect Tibetan heritage

The Ministry of Culture has agreed to build an experimental zone in China's northwestern Qinghai province to protect Tibetan ecological and cultural heritage.

According to Wang Dongmei, head of the culture and sports bureau in the Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, the zone will cover the city of Yushu and its adjacent counties.

On the zone's protection list are physical and cultural heritage items related to the local Tibetan people in the Sanjiangyuan area, which is home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang (Mekong) rivers, Wang said.