Why is it so important to protect and restore the ecology of Qilian Mountain?

I think it is very important to protect and restore Qilian Mountain.

Just as no one really understands a piece of land or a river, no one really understands mountains.

Qilian Mountain is located in the northeast of Qinghai Province and the western border of Gansu Province. Located in the northeast of Qinghai Province and the western border of Gansu Province. There are many northwest-southeast parallel mountains and wide valleys. This is a huge mountain system. Because it is located in the south side of Hexi Corridor in Zhangye City, it is also called Zhangye Nanshan. There are 3,306 glaciers, covering an area of 2,062 square kilometers.

According to chinese national geography's concept, Qilian Mountain is Qilian Mountain. It is connected with the Altun Mountain Range at Dangjinshankou in the west and the Yellow River Basin in the east. It is connected with Qinling Mountain and Liupanshan Mountain, with a total length of nearly 1000 km. It is a folded fault-block mountain with the widest width of 300 kilometers. It is located between Jiuquan City and Qaidam Basin. From north to south, there are Daxue Mountain, Tuolai Mountain, Tuolai Mountain, Maye Mountain, Shule Mountain, Danghe Mountain, Tulugendaban Mountain, Chaidamu Mountain and Zongwu Longshan.

These mountains are connected, and together they form the defense line of ecological security in western China. They stand together and play an irreplaceable role in maintaining ecological security in the west. They are important ecological security barriers in northwest China and are known as Hexi Corridor? Lifeline? And then what? Mother mountain? .

However, this is not all of Qilian Mountain. For the protection of Qilian Mountain, from a small point of view, Qilian Mountain contains 80% of the water in Hexi Corridor. Global warming alone can cause most of the small glaciers in Qilian Mountain to melt before 2050. Human activities will accelerate the degradation of frozen soil, and more than 5 million people will lose water supply in Hexi Corridor and downstream areas. This is just the Hexi Corridor.

In terms of scale, the Hexi Oasis and Qilian Mountains formed by the melting water of Qilian Mountains constitute the defense line to prevent the invasion of Badain Jaran Desert and Tengger Desert to the south, and are also the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and even? China Water Tower? The barrier of ecological security in the source of the Three Rivers. If the ecological protection of this mountain range is not good, it means that the Badain Jaran Desert and Tengger Desert will shake hands and unite as one. By then, it will not only mean the loss of the whole Hexi Corridor, but also mean that we should put Xinjiang? Send? Going out to release the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? Isolated? In the desert, if the western part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is turned into a desert, the desert will naturally rush to Lanzhou and even engulf Ningxia, which is very rich in the world because of the Yellow River.

In this way, our beloved northwest will be fragmented in the desert, or even, will we put it? Throw it away? In the roaring dust. It will always be the pain in our hearts, which is more painful than cutting flesh and bleeding. Qilian Mountain not only affects the ecology of the west, but also affects the ecology of China.

However, this is not all that Qilian Mountain means to China. More than two thousand years ago, when camel bells passed through the Hexi Corridor at the foot of Qilian Mountain, eastern and western civilizations exchanged and blended here. Chinese national geography once described that only by putting Qilian Mountain on a larger geographical scale can we truly understand its significance to Gansu and even China. If you unfold a topographic map of China, you will find that Qilian Mountain is a highland surrounded by arid areas. Gobi and desert (Beishan Gobi and Badain Jaran Desert) in the north, Qaidam arid basin in the south, Kumtag Desert in the west and Loess Plateau in the east. Qilian Mountain is a humid island extending to the arid area in the west. Glacier meltwater in Qilian Mountains flows from the mountains to the desert. Without Qilian Mountain, the deserts of Inner Mongolia Plateau and Qaidam Basin would be interconnected, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau would be close to each other.

Why should we protect Qilian Mountain? It's not a mountain. Without it, there would be no it.