Photos of two cute big cats from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau shown during the annual session of the 13th National People’s Congress attracted many fans.
During a deliberation at the session on March 7, Kong Qingju, an NPC deputy from northwest China’s Qinghai Province, showed photos of the two cats — a snow leopard and a Chinese desert cat — to President Xi Jinping.
“Rare species that we rarely saw before are now showing up,” said Kong, an education official in Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai, who grew up at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. Now, local farmers turn to tourism, environment-friendly farming, husbandry or special agricultural industries…