Study on protection and rational utilization of Yellow River wetland resources in Lanzhou city

Wetland was one of the biggest global ecosystems together with forest and sea ecosystems with its special function. The ecological function of wetland played an irreplaceable role in terms of social harmonic development with nature, and sustainable social economic development. In recent years, with the economic development and society progress, more and more attentions had been paid to wetland ecosystems and its protection. As a unique city where Yellow River flowed through, the protection and reasonably utilization of Lanzhou urban area wetland resources was not only the foundation of constructing Lanzhou landscape city, but also the basis of urban ecological environment construction. This paper aimed at the types and distribution, present situation and existing problems of Lanzhou urban area wetland resources, proposed the protection and utilization approach of Yellow River wetland resources to provide reference for reasonably utilizing wetland resources.