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Qinghai Lake, China's largest salt lake, is located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 136 kilometers from Qinghai's capital city, Xining. The magnificent lake, surrounded by a boundless green landscape and decorated with colorful flowers, shines like a large blue mirror under the sun. [Photo/VCG]
Taer Monastery, located 25 km from Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, is the center of Tibetan Buddhism in Northwest China and enjoys great fame in the country and across Southeast Asia. [Photo/VCG]
Having been domesticated for thousands of years on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the yak is the most important animal to Tibetan families, since it is a source of meat, milk, fiber and fuel for fires. Yak meat is rich in protein, amino acids, carotene, calcium and phosphorus. [Photo/VCG]
Chaka Salt Lake, located in Wulan county in the east of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai province, attracts many tourists from home and abroad who are often enthralled by the various salt sculptures at the Chaka Salt Lake scenic spot. The lake is known as the "mirror of the sky". It has been named by Chinese National Geography magazine as one of the 55 must-see places on Earth. [Photo/VCG]

 

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