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The population of endangered Przewalski's gazelle has recovered to more than 1,200 after 20 years of protection.
In the mid-1990s, the gazelle population around Qinghai Lake, the last stronghold of the species, was only 300. Now the animal is growing by around 80 each year following a ban on hunting and better protection of the environment.
The local environment department says the gazelle still faces a fight for survival with barbed wire fences stretched across its native grassland. The fences have fragmented their habitat. Most of the fences are too high for migrating gazelle to jump over, leaving the animals injured or killed by the wire.
In addition to fences, the gazelle faces food shortages, inbreeding and degraded grassland.
The animal is believed to be the most endangered hoofed mammal in the world. It was named after the Russian explorer who collected a specimen and took it back to Russia in 1875.
The gazelle once lived in almost all parts of northwest China's grasslands, but now it is seen only around Qinghai Lake.
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A Chinese gala performance presented by a visiting Chinese art troupe and Tirana University Confucius Institute was presented in Tirana, the capital of Albania, bringing Chinese artistic shows to local audiences.
The group from Changsha University of Science and Technology in the south central Hunan Province with the Confucius Institute of Tirana performed Chinese martial arts and played the musical instruments of flute, the pipa, a traditional Chinese plucked instrument, as well as bamboo lutes. The art troupe also performed songs and dances from China's ethnic minority areas, including the "peacock dance" and "Melody of the Dragon Boat".
The performance, entitled "Enchanting China, Charming Hunan," brought traditional Chinese songs and dances from different parts of China, which were well received by local residents.
The Confucius Institute of Tirana was established in 2013. As well as setting up Chinese courses at different levels, the Confucius Institute regularly launches a series of activities to promote Chinese culture with the objective of helping students gain better insights into Chinese society.
