The reserve is located at the southeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau, at the juncture of two parts of the Himalaya Mountain Range. Its aim is to protect the subtropical evergreen latifoliate forest, rare subtropical animals and the high-yield Yunnan pine forest. It is warm and humid, with a great variety of species and a relatively complete forest ecological system.

The reserve consists of the Ciba Gully Nature Reserve, Shuzhub Village Nature Reserve and Lhamo Lungba Nature Reserve. No people live there. The Ciba Gully Nature Reserve is for protecting the natural ecological system, Yaozhu Village Nature Reserve is for protecting high-yield tropical primitive coniferous forest. The forest of Yunnan pine trees has an intact primitive landscape, with a regular forest. The total stock volume of trees is about 200,000 cubic meters, an average of over 1,200 cubic meters per hectare. Various growth factors are four to five times of the counterparts in other places of China. The Lhamo Lungba Gully Nature Reserve is for protecting the subtropical evergreen latifoliate forest. The primitive forest landscape is well preserved here. It is a haunt of rare wild animals, such as the Bangladesh tiger, bear, leopard, pangolin, golden vulture and python. Before the reserve was established,some hunters used to frequent thearea, which resulted in the reduction of rare, wild animals.With the establishment of the reserve, hunting has been stopped, and the population of wild animals has increased.