Expedition on northern slope of Kunlun Mountains launched in China's Xinjiang

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Expedition on northern slope of Kunlun Mountains launched in China's Xinjiang

STORY: Expedition on northern slope of Kunlun Mountains launched in China's Xinjiang DATELINE: May 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the expedition 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHU CHENGGANG, Associate researcher, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under CAS 3. various of the expedition STORYLINE: Researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently launched an expedition to investigate glaciers, snow, rivers and lakes on the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHU CHENGGANG, Associate researcher, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under CAS "We are here at the Gurgahta River in the north of the Kum Kol Basin of East Kunlun. We are going to monitor the flow rate, velocity and cross profiles of this river in different seasons. The monitoring work aims to accurately assess the quantity of the

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