China to develop wetland national parks: Xi

China will develop wetland national parks, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday.

Xi made the remarks when delivering a speech via video at the opening ceremony of the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in China's Wuhan and Switzerland's Geneva.

The wetland national parks include the Three-River-Source National Park, the Qinghai Lake National Park, the Ruoergai National Park, the Yellow River Estuary National Park, the Liao River Estuary National Park and the Songnen Plain Crane Homeland National Park.

A national wetlands conservation plan and major conservation projects will be implemented, Xi said.