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Though a small administrative
area, Nyingchi is highly rich in three major resources
-- namely, forestry, hydraulics and tourism. These three
resources have enabled Nyingchi's economy to skyrocket
since the 1980s.
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The traditional
means of
drawing water in Nyingchi |
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According to the Ministry of Forestry's
air survey, the forest coverage of Nyingchi is 46.1
percent. Nyingchi's forest has a large variety of
trees and is expansive. The wood reserves is estimated
to be 882 million m3 and the yearly yield of lumber
has been maintained at 180,000 m3 for many years.
To effectively use the forest resources, the Nyingchi
Administrative Office has made great strides in
science and technology, transforming operations
and improving the economy, in addition to ensuring
the production, sales, management and protection
of the forest. The forest industry has turned from
producing lumber to finely processed products, representing
a transition from extensive operations to an intensive
operation, and from a command economy to a market
economy.
Factories producing plywood, flooring, and wood
products corporations have been established in Gongbo'gyamda,
Nyingchi, Mainling and Bome. |
Gengzhang Wood Products Factory and Gangga Wood Products
Factory have merged into Sengong Enterprise Group, Ltd.
and have developed a specialized industry system on a
large scale.
Fungi and economic plants are also a part of the wood
resources. More than 120 edible fungi grow in the forest
of Nyingchi, including the hedgehog fungus, morel and
pine mushroom which also serves as a medicine. The yearly
yield of pine mushrooms can reach over 300 tons. Nyingchi's
forest also possesses a considerable variety of herbs
in large quantities, such as Chinese caterpillar fungus,
hongjingtian,a highland ginseng, rhizoma gastrodiae, pseudo-ginseng,
and dangshen, as well as economic trees, such as apple
tree, tea, tung tree, chestnut, pepper tree and oranges.
Among these, the annual apple yield is 3 million kg, and
tea 15,000 kg.
Nyingchi's hydropower
resources account for
more than 70 percent of the Tibetan Autonomous
Region
The forest is described as a "green bank" or
"treasury with no lock." In the past more than
a dozen years since the introduction of the reform and
opening-up policy, the shy Nyingchi people have freed
themselves from relying on just the land and have become
more involved in their own economy by engaging in business
and sideline production, developing township enterprises
and tapping the potential of the forest and mountains.
Before 1987, a large quantity of pine mushrooms were left
to rot, because it was taken to be an ordinary vegetable
at a price of 0.25 yuan RMB per kg. And, after 1987, the
local people benefited greatly from the export of pine
mushrooms to Japan at more than 100 tons annually. The
local people also receive 1 million yuan RMB every year
from the county government as resource compensation. Such
activity is only a simple exchange between nature and
humans, and the Nyingchi people have increased the pace
of development of the mountains and forest by setting
up the local Foreign Economic and Trade Bureau and the
Foreign Trade Corporation to develop local key products
for export.
The Nyang River
Nyingchi's waterpower resources account for 70 percent
of Tibet's total, one of the rich-waterpower regions in
China. The hydropower station at the U-turn of the Yarlung
Zangbo River with an installed capacity of 60,000 MW,
three times as much as the Three Gorges Project, has been
listed by the United Nations as being one of the 10 super
projects in the 21st century. According to the survey
of the Water Conservancy Department of Tibet, more than
a dozen places are suitable for establishing power plants
of more than 300 MW, and about 100 places are suitable
for power plants of less than 300 MW. Large number of
snow mountains, great drop and a short dry season add
to the advantages of establishing reservoirs. Fully utilizing
these conditions to develop hydropower in the villages,
upgrading the present power stations and ensuring the
high quality of the Ba River 20MW Power Station will be
critically helpful to the energy supply for the economic
development of Nyingchi.
The beautiful natural sights are a boon for Nyingchi's
developing tourism, which is now a new economic growth
point of the region. Tourist facilities such as Nyingchi
Hotel, Regional Guest House and Conggo Lake Resort Village
have been established in Bayi Town and other points of
interest. The natural beauty and human resources will
be further exploited in Lunam Virgin Forest, the U-turn
of Yarlung Zangbo River, Namjagbarwa Peak, and Lieshan
Ancient Graves in Nang. The Yarlung Zangbo River Tourist
Festival is being planned, furthering the local tertiary
industry by promoting the development of tourism.
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