Xinhuanet | July 12, 2017:
LHASA, July 12 (Xinhua) — Yandao, 35, had never been to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before he joined an observation team on China’s second scientific expedition to the plateau in June.
Yandao, a member of the Blang ethnic minority, comes from a small village in Xishuangbana, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. After graduating with a degree in zoology from Southwest Forestry University in 2013, he began work as a ornithologist at Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
China’s first large-scale scientific expedition on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was conducted in the 1970s. The second expedition will last five to 10 years, covering more than 50 disciplines including geology, prehistoric life, geophysics, climate, zoology and botany.
Dozens of scientists specializing in different fields have been divided into groups to research the biological diversity of the plateau and draw up a habitat map to be used for preservation and tourism purposes.
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