Hoh Xil: 51st world heritage site in China

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Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve is China's largest and the world's third largest uninhabited area. Because of the high altitude and fierce weather, it is impossible for people to live there. Therefore, it is the paradise for wildlife and home to more than 230 species of wild animals including endangered species such as the Tibetan antelope, and it comprises several migration routes of the species.

Tibetan antelope, the endemic ungulate in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, is part of the IUCN Global Species Program, and recognized as the National Class I Protected animal. In 1997, the first National Nature Reserve established to protect Tibetan antelope was created in Hoh Xil. Around 60,000 Tibetan antelope currently live freely in Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve. The project of world heritage application was launched at the end of 2014 and it took two and a half years to improve Hoh Xil Nature Reserve.