X-Nico

unusual facts about Western China



Liang Congjie

The organization worked with the Chinese government to ensure enforcement of existing environmental law, including efforts to protect a Tibetan antelope which were on the path to extinction and videotaping the cutting stands of old-growth forest in Western China that led to a 1999 order by Zhu Rongji prohibiting cutting down such trees.


see also

C. chinensis

Corylus chinensis, the Chinese filbert or Chinese hazel, a deciduous tree species native to western China

Chengdu Golden Apple Child Education

Chengdu Golden Apple Child Education Simplified Chinese: 成都金苹果儿童教育 Pinyin:Chengdu Jin Pingguo Ertong Jiaoyi is one of the major education groups in western China.

Daphne tangutica

The Latin specific epithet tangutica derives from an historical tribe of what is now north western China, but has been a synonym for Tibet, part of the plant's native range.

Dasiphora fruticosa

It was introduced into cultivation in the 18th century, but many of the modern cultivars, particularly those with orange or red flowers, derive from collections by Reginald Farrer in western China in the early 20th century.

Daurian Redstart

Bangs, Outram (1932): Birds of western China obtained by the Kelley-Roosevelts expedition.

E. metallica

Eupanacra metallica, a moth species found from north-western India across Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and northern Myanmar to south-western China

Marbled Duck

In the east it survives in the Mesopotamian marshland in southern Iraq and in Iran (Shadegan Marshes - the world's most important site), as well as isolated pockets in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and further to the east in western India and western China.

Meemann Chang

She completed her undergraduate studies at Moscow University and completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The braincase of Youngolepis, a Lower Devonian crossopterygian from Yunnan, south-western China' at Stockholm University.

Mosuo

Stacey, Judith. Unhitched: Love, Sex, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China.

Pangang

Panzhihua Iron and Steel: the largest state-owned steel-making enterprise in Western China.

Snowfinch

As the English and scientific names suggest, these are high altitude species, found in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia, from the Pyrenees east to the Himalayas, Tibet and western China.

Subashi

Subashi Formation, a late Cretaceous formation from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China

Wang Luobin

His songs continue to be popular today, and modern adaptations of them have been recorded by the Beijing Angelic Choir, a Chinese children's choir that has earned recognition both at home and abroad; by China's popular Twelve Girls Band; and by the famous Chinese rock singer Dao Lang, who is known for his western China-themed pop music.

Yarkand

Yarkand River, a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China