China’s first national parks

China's first national parks

The headwaters of three great rivers of China--the Yellow, the Yangtze and the Lancang--are found in the Three-River-Source National Park on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Some 1,340 giant pandas live in the Giant Panda National Park in west China
The Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park
The Hainan Tropical Forests National Park is home to the Hainan black-crested gibbon, one of the world’s rarest primates
The Wuyishan National Park in Fujian Province in east China

China has officially designated its first group of national parks, which include the Three-River-Source National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, the Hainan Tropical Forests National Park, and the Wuyishan National Park. The protected land area is 230,000 square km and they cover nearly 30 percent of the key terrestrial wildlife species found in the country.

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