The Chinese government announced this week that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads out of a nature reserve in the west of the country as part of a resettlement program that began in 2005.
Chinese government is removing the nomads from their traditional grasslands to exercise more control over the Tibetan population.
China has been pursuing such a policy not only in Qinghai, but also in Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Qinghai Province once had about 600,000 nomads.
Now official figures show that about 90 percent of them have been removed from their grasslands. Beijing says it plans to complete the relocation of the remaining several thousand Tibetan herders next year.

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