About Haixi News Net

Haixi News Net

About the Portal

Haixi News Net is the official online news portal serving Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China. It is produced by the local converged media centre, the merged municipal newspaper, radio and television operation for the area, and publishes local news in Chinese for the prefecture and its subordinate counties and districts. As described in its service profile, the portal carries reporting from the local newspaper group alongside online-first local coverage, short-video news and local government service information. Local news websites of this type in China operate under Cyberspace Administration of China internet news information service licensing, which governs which organisations may gather, edit and publish news online. Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a vast autonomous prefecture in western Qinghai, administered from Delingha. Covering most of the Qaidam Basin, it includes the rail and road hub of Golmud, administered as a county-level city, together with Wulan, Dulan, Tianjun counties and the Da Qaidam administrative area. Its area makes it one of China's largest prefecture-level jurisdictions, yet its population is concentrated in a few oasis and mining towns separated by desert and salt flat.

History and Setting

The Qaidam Basin is a high intermontane basin rich in minerals, and Haixi's economy is documented in industrial reporting as a centre of salt-lake chemistry. The Chaerhan Salt Lake near Golmud hosts China's largest potash production base, supplying a major share of national potash fertiliser, while oil and gas fields around Lenghu and the basin floor, lithium extraction from salt lakes and growing wind and solar installations in the desert around Delingha and Golmud extend the resource economy.

Geography and Landscape

Golmud's strategic role comes from transport: the Qinghai-Tibet railway and highway pass through the city on the route from Xining to Lhasa, and the city was the construction base for the railway's plateau sections. Kunlun Mountain passes south of Golmud, and the city promotes itself as the gateway to the Kunlun, with the source region of the Yangtze lying beyond in the Tanggula country administered from its southern exclave.

Economy and Industry

Delingha has an unexpected literary fame. The poet Haizi's 1988 poem beginning 'Sister, tonight I am in Delingha' made the small basin city a place of pilgrimage for Chinese poetry readers, and the city has embraced the association with a poetry culture that local cultural coverage treats seriously. Chaka Salt Lake, in neighbouring Wulan County within the prefecture, is promoted nationally as a mirror-of-the-sky attraction and draws large visitor numbers reported each season.

Culture and Heritage

Ecology in the basin is a delicate subject covered closely by local media: water use around the salt lakes, protection of the Qaidam's desert wetlands, restoration at the old Lenghu oil town, and the prefecture's role in the Sanjiangyuan and Qilian conservation systems all recur. Mongol and Tibetan herding communities on the basin's grassland margins contribute livestock and cultural reporting from Tianjun and Dulan.

Area Served and Local Coverage

Haixi News Net covers this dispersed prefecture from Delingha, reporting potash and new-energy projects, Qinghai-Tibet corridor transport, salt-lake tourism, poetry events and herding county news. Its verified beat is defined by the Qaidam Basin itself, a resource frontier whose industrial and ecological stories are of national as well as local interest.

What the Portal Publishes

Day to day, Haixi News Net publishes government and public-policy news, economy and industry reporting, society and livelihood coverage, and culture and tourism material for Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Typical items include municipal meeting and policy announcements, project and infrastructure updates, market and agricultural reporting in season, school and hospital service information, weather and road notices, and features on local heritage and landscape. The mix reflects the converged newsroom behind it, in which newspaper reporting, broadcast material and mobile-first video are planned together rather than produced in separate silos.

The Newsroom and Converged Media

Like other prefecture-level outlets in China, Haixi News Net is the digital front end of a converged media centre formed by merging the local daily newspaper with radio and television under one organisation. That structure, adopted across China in the county and prefecture media reforms of recent years, means a single editorial team gathers material for print, broadcast, web, mobile app and social accounts. For readers in Qinghai, the practical effect is that official announcements, live-streamed local events and short-video explainers appear on the same platform as the newspaper's text reporting.

Reading the Portal and Its Audience

The portal's primary audience is residents of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and its counties, together with people from the area who now live elsewhere in China and follow hometown news online. Coverage is published in Chinese and is organised around the locality first: district and county news, service information and official notices are given prominence over national material, which is typically carried from state news agencies. For researchers and directory users, Haixi News Net is best understood as the official local news website of its prefecture, distinct from the print daily newspaper of the same city, whose reporting it carries and extends.

Transport, Seasons and Public Information

Public-information reporting is one of the most practical functions of Haixi News Net. In a prefecture such as Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where county towns can be separated by long road journeys and where weather can change conditions quickly, readers rely on the official local portal for road and transport notices, weather warnings, and announcements about schools, hospitals and public utilities. Seasonal coverage follows the local calendar closely: spring brings planting, blossom, wind or meltwater reporting depending on the district, summer brings flood, heat or peak visitor-season coverage, autumn is dominated by harvest, livestock movement or tourism results, and winter coverage turns to heating, snow, road safety and festival travel. Because the portal is part of the official converged media centre for Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, its notices carry the authority of the local newsroom's own reporting and of the government departments whose announcements it publishes, which is why such service items are typically placed prominently on its homepage and mobile channels alongside general news.

Digital Services and Verification

Haixi News Net also functions as an entry point to local digital services. In line with the standard practice of official prefecture-level portals in China, its pages link readers toward government service information, policy documents, public notices and enquiry channels for the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture area, as well as to the media centre's mobile and social-media accounts, where short-video news and live streams are distributed. For anyone verifying whether a piece of local news is official, the practical test is whether it appears on this portal or on the accounts of the local converged media centre, since licensed internet news information services are the authorised channel for original local news gathering and publication. Readers outside Qinghai who encounter the portal through search should note that it is a Chinese-language local service rather than a national or English-language publication: its value, for residents and for researchers alike, lies precisely in that local focus, in the county-level detail of its service information, and in the continuity between its reporting and the newspaper, radio and television services of the same media centre.

Taken as a whole, the portal should be understood as part of the standard structure of local journalism in China, in which each prefecture-level area maintains an official news website operated by its converged media centre. That context matters when assessing its content: official announcements, policy interpretation and service information form its core, supplemented by the centre's own reporting on the economy, society, culture and landscape of its home area. Its archive, built up day by day, amounts to a running public record of local decisions, projects, festivals, harvests, emergencies and commemorations, and it is frequently the first source cited by provincial and national media when a story from this area reaches a wider audience. For that reason the portal is catalogued in this directory as the area's official online news service in its own right, separate from the corresponding print newspaper entry, from provincial portals that aggregate its material, and from commercial news sites that republish local stories without maintaining a newsroom in the area itself.