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Ecological “Protection”?

July 19, 2022;

Li Zhanshu,China’s top legislator, on a tour of Tibet has spoken of a new law for the ecological protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, reports Chinese state media Xinhua. He said “ecological protection is the basic premise and the rigid constraint of the region’s development” and called for “focus on safeguarding national unification and strengthening ethnic unity, and to ensure enduring social stability”.

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