No, Yushu claims that beef jerky is a specialty of Qinghai province, and it is a Tibetan food, not a halal food. Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan name:), the capital of Yushu City, is one of the eight prefecture-level administrative regions in Qinghai, which means "ruins" in Tibetan. It is the first minority autonomous prefecture established in Qinghai Province and the second minority autonomous prefecture in China.