Increased government and nonprofit investment is transforming the lives of nomadic yak herders in Yushu prefecture's remote grasslands. Erik Nilsson chronicles the improvements over three years.
Chinese folk song writer Wang Luobin lived in Qinghai for more than a decade in the 1930s and 1940s, during which he wrote some of his best-known pieces, including In a Far Away Fairy Land and The Crescent Moon Rises.
The Qilian Mountains is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between the Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China.
The Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum is the only comprehensive museum in the world collecting, studying and displaying Tibetan culture.
More than 100,000 birds gather at Qinghai Lake from the south every year and the monitoring system will check for epidemics and environmental protection.
When summer comes, the grand plain of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau will be decorated by the blue sky, green plants and colorful flowers, attracting visitors from all over the world.
When most people think of Yushu, a Tibetan prefecture in Northwest China's Qinghai province, they remember the catastrophic earthquake that hit on April 4, 2012. But, it is Yushu's charming scenery that once attracted visitors and is now helping its post-quake revival.
The Qinghai Museum of Tibetan Culture is a pioneer tourist site in China based on a modernized exhibition and manifestation that fully applies advanced-tech and multimedia technology.