(2002 pop. 5.3 million). A remote province in western China, Qinghai (Blue Sea) has a population that includes Han Chinese and Tibetans, as well as Mongols and Kazakh, Hui, Salar, and Tu minorities. The capital Xining (Western Peace) has a population...

Coordinates: 36°0′N, 96°0′E Qinghai (help·info) (青海, qīnghǎi) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. It borders Gansu on the northeast, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region on the northwest,...

The vigorous exploration of natural resources in the Salt Lake at the Chaidamo Basin and oil fields in Qinghai has rapidly shaping Qinghai into one of the provinces with major production bases of salt chemicals, petrochemicals and metallurgical chemicals. The salt output...

Qinghai is the province in China with the most to hide. This is China's Siberia-a land of exile and forced labor, of lost hopes for those who have been imprisoned here or who have been assigned against their will by the state to...

China is forcing nomadic Tibetan herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving many unable to earn a living, a human rights group said in a report issued Sunday.Herders have been forced to slaughter herds of yaks, sheep and goats and Communist...

Russian authorities expect new outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the Moscow region and the surrounding provinces, the veterinary service said Wednesday in a statement sent to other governments.The virus, which began killing domestic birds in the Moscow suburbs on Feb 9,...