📋 Tender Overview
Country:China
Area Of Work:Biodiversity
Grant Amount:US$ 50,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:US$ 5,340.75
Project Number:CPR/SGP/OP7/Y4/STAR/BD/2023/03
Status:Not active yet
1. environmental and socio-economic conditions
Xinyuan means "newly developed wilderness", located at the east end of Ili River Valley, which is known as "the top ten new heavenly houses in China", and is known as "the pearl of grassland and Xinjiang Wine Town". Xinyuan County belongs to the northern temperate continental semi-arid climate zone with obvious four seasons. Due to the influence of wet air from west to east, Xinyuan County has a good climate of warm winter and cool summer. The climate is mild, abundant water vapor, the frost-free period is 161 days, the annual average temperature is 9.7, the total annual precipitation is 533.8 mm, the natural conditions are superior, conducive to the growth of grassland vegetation and trees.
The area is rich in natural resources. The total forest area is 2.217,900 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 13.36%. 7.616,600 mu of natural grassland. There are four major alpine grasslands in the world - Narati Tourist Scenic area andnational forest park, with a total area of 800 square kilometers. There are 200,000 mu of wild reed and wetland resources, there are snow lily, fritillaria, licorice and other precious medicinal materials. Due to the winter temperature inversion of the mountain valley, the largest wild fruit forest of 40,000 mu and the original wild apricot forest of 60,000 mu in the 14th century have been preserved, concentrated in the north bank of the Kunes River, which is one of the areas with relatively concentrated wild apricot forest in Xinjiang. Prunus armeniaca Lam is one of the rare tree species in wild fruit forest under the second-level state key protection. It plays an important role in maintaining the stability and diversity of wild fruit forest ecosystem, so it is known as "wild fruit gene bank of China". It is rich in Kerabra apples, Narati black bee honey, Kerabra peaches, etc., and is known as "the world's apple source."
High biodiversity. Because of its special geographical and climatic characteristics, Xinyuan County provides a good growing environment for various plant species. The plant diversity in the area is high and the flora is relatively complex, mainly including 66 families, 275 genera and 564 species of plants within the phyla ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms, and the number of plant species accounts for 15.86% of the whole Xinjiang. Compositaceae and Graminaceae were the two largest families with 149 species, accounting for 26.7% of the total. The wild vegetation mainly includes Xueling spruce, Tianshan birch, wild apricot, wild apple and so on. Mountains, grasslands, rivers and other Chinese herbs grow everywhere, of which there are more than 200 kinds of medicinal value, such as fritillaria, cotonopsis, snow lotus, ephedra and so on. There are about 150 species
