It is dug up on the Tibetan plateau, to the concern of environmentalists.
Security forces are also on full alert across the Tibetan plateau amid fears that Tibetans may stage their own commemorations.
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One of the party's most trumpeted experiments is in Ya'an, a municipality of Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan plateau.
The riots in Lhasa of March 2008 and subsequent unrest across the Tibetan plateau triggered an anti-Western backlash online and in the media.
Those suggestions are corroborated by a study led by Xu Baiqing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, in Beijing.
Assuming the veracity of this disclosure, these efforts would pose a direct threat to the population, resources and fragile environment of the Tibetan Plateau.
Lushan, where the quake struck, is home to 1.5 million people where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau.
Lushan, where the quake struck, lies where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau and sits atop the Longmenshan fault.
Its bottled water, energy drinks and yogurt are ubiquitous from the urban markets of Beijing and Shanghai to rural stalls in the snowy mountains of the Tibetan plateau.
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But unlike Everest, which is cocooned by other peaks on the Tibetan plateau, McKinley stands unchallenged, a solid wall of rock and ice rising like an apparition above the wild taiga.
In the north-west and centre of the Tibetan plateau Dr Xu and his team found that particularly high levels of soot had fallen on the glaciers during the 1950s.
That project raised serious concerns with regard to the relocation of Chinese onto the Tibetan Plateau as well as how Tibetan concerns could properly be integrated into the project.
What this is doing or will do to areas like the Tibetan Plateau is debated, and it is now difficult for many foreigners to enter that sensitive zone to investigate.
Yaks live in alpine tundra, grasslands and the cold desert regions of the northern Tibetan Plateau, ranging from 13, 000 to 20, 000 feet (4, 000 to 6, 100 meters) in elevation, according to the IUCN.
And the other is a very interesting one, which is traditional communities, mainly in the Tibetan Plateau, which use tiger and leopard skins both for ceremonial occasions, festivals and things, but also for coat trimmings.
Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.
For a start, says Robbie Barnett, a prominent scholar and defender of Tibetan culture at Columbia University, most archaeologists agree that the plateau has been settled for much longer than that.
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