More than 100 experts from China and around the world on Thursday gathered in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, for a two-day conference to address one of today's most pressing environmental challenges: biodiversity loss in arid and semi-arid ecosystems.
The first batch of artificially bred Gongshan plum yews were reintroduced to the wild at Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Yunnan province recently, marking an important stride in the conservation of the endangered species.
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