The expedition, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will analyse the impact of environmental change on social development and provide suggestion for the building of a national park in the area.
When the expedition began in June this year, a report in the state-run Xinhua news agency had said it also included China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and a pass linking South Asia.
CPEC passes through the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) over which India has conveyed its protests to China. The area covers the Karakoram mountain range, including parts of the Siachen glacier.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is an important ecological safety barrier and strategic resource reserve base, Xinhua news agency reported today, quoting Xi's letter.
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Vice Premier Liu Yandong read the letter at a ceremony in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.
The last expedition of similar scale in Tibet, regarded as roof of the world with extremely rare fragile ecological system, was conducted in the 1970s.
They will divided into four groups and make a comprehensive survey of the plateau glaciers, climate change, biodiversity and ecological changes, Yao Tandong, an academician with the CAS had said in June.
"Great changes have taken place in the plateau's resources and environment since the first scientific expedition. We need further research to find out ways to cope with these changes," said Yao, director of the CAS Institute of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research.
China's first comprehensive scientific expedition to the Tibet plateau began in the 1970s and covered more than 50 disciplines including geologic structure, prehistoric life, geophysics, climate, zoology and botany.
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