-- During a deliberation at the annual session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) on March 7, Kong Qingju, an NPC deputy from northwest China's Qinghai Province, showed photos of two big cats -- a snow leopard and a Chinese desert cat -- to President Xi Jinping. -- Xi has stressed concrete efforts to give priority to ecology, promote high-quality development and create a high-quality life. -- After recent years of intensive restoration efforts, the populations of snow leopards, Tibetan wild donkeys, white-lipped deer and alpine musk deer have been expanding as the quality of their habitats was significantly improved.