Qinghai province, across the Tibetan Plateau in the upper Yangtze and Yellow River valleys, is one of the poorest provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) because of its remote location, mountainous landscape, and extreme climate. Agriculture remains an important sector and improving water management to meet irrigation water needs is the primary agricultural development priority.
Gansu province in 2009 had the second-lowest gross domestic product per capita in the People’s Republic of China. Its Tianshui municipality’s 3.6 million inhabitants included 640,000 urban dwellers in Qinzhou and Maiji districts with an estimated urban poverty rate of 13.5%.
Altay is the northernmost area in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), northwest of the People’s Republic of China, close to Central Asia. The area suffers from a very harsh climate, with subzero temperatures between October and March, annual precipitation of about 180 millimeters, and a high evaporation rate of about 2,000 millimeters.
The Yancheng coastal wetlands of Jiangsu province in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is considered the world’s largest intertidal wetland system. They are in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, with 415 recorded bird species, of which 29 are in the International Union of Conservation Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC), which has considerable coal reserves and generates electricity for export to other provinces, depended on coal to meet more than 90% of its energy demand in 2008. As a result, although it had less than 2% of the PRC's population, its sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions were 5% of national emissions. Coal burning f
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