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A group of brown-headed gulls rest on the surface of Namtso Lake in Lhasa after the ice and snow melted. Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa, August 18 (Reporter Li Hua, Wei Guanyu, Yang Fan) The overall ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is improving, the Asian water tower will enter an ultra-warm and wet stage, and human activities may have appeared as early as 190,000 years ago...

On the 18th, Yao Tandong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and captain of the second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition team, led scientific research experts from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Peking University, Lanzhou University and other institutions to release the important results of the ten major tasks of this scientific expedition in Lhasa.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the roof of the world, the water tower of Asia, the third pole of the earth, an important ecological security barrier in my country, and an important protection area for the unique culture of the Chinese nation.

Since the launch of the second comprehensive scientific survey and research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in August 2017, my country has organized more than 2,600 scientific expedition teams with more than 28,000 people to conduct scientific expeditions across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, continuously decoding the Earth's Third Pole and showing the world a series of results of China's scientific expeditions to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

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