The construction of the Tibet Astronomy Museum is an important part of China's astronomical science popularization venue and astronomical observatory in Tibet Autonomous Region, which plays an important role in improving Tibet's astronomical science popularizing ability and China's astronomy and space observation capability.
China plans to build five national parks in the Tibet autonomous region that collectively have been named after the high-altitude region's nickname as the Earth's third pole. ... This year, park construction will start around the Gangdise mountain range in western Tibet, Serling Tso in southwestern Tibet and around Bome county in the ...
You can have your own customized private tour or join a group tour, the choice is yours. But you cannot travel in Tibet without a tour, tour guide, and private vehicle. In fact, the main permit to get into Tibet, the Tibet Travel Permit, is only issued after application from a registered travel agency. You cannot apply in person.
Members of China's second comprehensive science expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau set up an automatic meteorological station on Mount Qomolangma on May 4, 2022 (XINHUA) ... mountaineers underwent two years of training in installing and operating the scientific equipment and instruments, Yao said. During the second …
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway line runs between Xining in Qinghai province and Lhasa in the Tibet autonomous region. Construction of the Xining-Golmud section began in 1958 and was completed in 1984, while the section between Golmud and Lhasa became operational in 2006. Over the past four decades, the line saw many upgrades, but the Xining …
FIFTY-five-year-old Sonam Yeshe has a wealth of "moving" experience. He grew up in Menshi, a typical pastoral village in Gar County, Tibet Autonomous Region. As a pastoralist his work each year involved grazing yaks and sheep and herding them in three seasonal migrations to summer, autumn, and winter pastures. At the end of 2017 he and …
The railway has a designed speed of 160 km per hour, according to its constructor Tibet Railway Construction Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China State Railway Group. Home to the world's most developed high-speed railway network, China aims to extend the total length in operation to around 50,000 km by 2025, up from 37,900 km by …
Tibet Airlines announced last week that it will launch 20 new routes starting on Sunday to provide more convenient travel services to the Tibet autonomous region. Among the new routes are flights that connect Lhasa, the regional capital, with Shigatse and Chamdo, and with cities around China including Jinan, Xi'an, Nantong, Yantai, Wenzhou ...
In 2022, the local government provided funding to five host families, including Yeshe's, for the construction of traditional Tibetan wooden houses, outfitted with modern amenities like flush toilets and bathrooms. ... A group of Tibetan antelopes pass through the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and head towards the Sanjiangyuan area in …
China's Tibet Autonomous Region is celebrating the 70th anniversary of peaceful liberation -- a turning point in the region's history -- as it starts a new journey of modernization after decades of leapfrog development.
Recently, the traditional Tibetan construction method "pounding a-gar" was used during the building of the Tibet Garden at the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exposition to be open on April 29. ... While constructing the Tibet Garden, many architectural materials are from Tibet, including wood, stone, and unique building …
It was decided at the meetings that the central government would support a number of key construction projects in Tibet, and a series of special preferential policies were enacted. At the seventh central symposium on Tibet work held last year, Xi expounded on "the guidelines for governing Tibet in the new era," with "prioritizing …
The Tibet University has run for more than 70 years, and has trained more than 80,000 specialized talents at all levels of various kinds, providing important intellectual support for the economic construction and social development of Tibet and Southwest China. Tibet University graduation ceremony (Editor:Zheny)
It is a section of a line that will eventually connect Sichuan province and Tibet. "Construction of the (Sichuan-Tibet) line will last for more than 10 years due to the complicated geological and climate conditions and fragile ecology," Wang Yang, the ministry's chief planning officer, said at a news conference in Beijing. ...
Lin's husband, a contractor, traveled across the country to work on construction sites all year round when their son was 4 and didn't fix his workplace in Sanming until the boy attended middle school. ... "Children from Tibet now have a larger amount of reading and better communication abilities. That may be due to better elementary school ...
One of the main concerns for international travelers to Tibet is the requirement to have a Tibet Travel Permit before you travel. International tourists are not permitted to enter Tibet, or even to board the trains and flights to Lhasa, without the permit, and obtaining the permit does require you to be on a pre-booked tour with a registered …
"Tibet was so poor when I came here the first time," Rein said, recalling long bumpy journeys along winding dirt roads that left him clutching for a barf bag. Before his return to Tibet, Rein planned for the worst and told his team they would probably not be able to reach him due to a lack of access to phone or Internet.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Wednesday called for efforts to improve the country's ability to safeguard against natural disasters, and fully launch the planning and construction of the Sichuan-Tibet railway. Construction workers work on a part of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in …
The opening ceremony of the launch of the flight. At 2:00 pm on March 29, as an A319 passenger plane from Tibet Airlines slowly landed at Shigatse Heping Airport, the first direct flight from Jinan, Shangdong province to Shigatse was launched successfully.
Over 1.1 mln folios of ancient texts archived at Tibet's Potala Palace; Thousand-year-old wild yak dance; cented tea planted in a village in Nagqu, Tibet; Major lakes in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau see significant water increase; Residents pick tea leaves in Medog County, China's Tibet; Wildlife protection in Tibet continues to thrive
Known as "the city of heroes", Gyantse County in Shigatse, southwest China's Tibet earned the reputation from its people's valiant fighting against the British imperialists' invasion in 1904. Now, you can find the Anti-British Imperialism Relic on Mt. Dzongri, which is a national protected cultural relic and base for patic education.
In the 1950s, the central government nevertheless decided to build a railway to Lhasa. In 1956, the Ministry of Railways carried out a comprehensive survey of Tibet to work out the planning and design for this task. After decades of research and debates, in June 2001, the railway connecting Golmud in Qinghai to Lhasa started construction.
Now, 70 years after the peaceful liberation of Tibet, Dodramog and other Tibetans are living much better lives as the region has made unprecedented strides in social and economic development, and pushed for the well-rounded development of the …
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau human genetic resources sample database was launched on April 12 in Xining, capital city of northwest China's Qinghai. As a key national project, the construction of the database is led by Qinghai University with participation from Tibet University, Xizang Minzu University, Chinese …
Nyima Tsering, the President of Traditional Tibetan Medicine University of Tibet, said that Tibetan medicine is a crucial part of outstanding traditional Chinese cultural heritage, with a long history, systematic theoretical system, rich clinical experience, complete diverse disciplines, unique diagnosis and treatment methods and various ...
A game changer . Assistance projects, especially to develop new industries, have become a major way to fight poverty in Tibet. From 2013 to 2017, over 1,700 assistance projects worth 14.35 billion yuan ($2.08 billion) had been launched, according to a white paper on democratic reform in Tibet released by China's State Council …
Only by observing the following principles can a modernization road with Tibetan local and ethnic characteristics be opened up: Focusing on economic construction; upholding the policies of reform and opening-up; combining the protection of the freedom of religious belief with separation of religion from politics; actively guiding religion to ...
The construction of the Bayu Tunnel from Lhasa to the Nyingchi railway section of the strategic Sichuan-Tibet Railway has been completed, media reports said on Sunday, a development that one expert called a big step to strengthen connections between China and South Asia. ... According to the People's Daily, construction of the 13,073 …
A large number of historical accounts before 1951 reflect the terrible public health and hygiene conditions in Tibet. For example, beggars and stray dogs roamed the streets and sewage and waste were everywhere, even in the center of Lhasa, capital of the Tibet.
Situated on the "roof of the world," Tibet was isolated from the rest of the world in the past. There was no modern road into Tibet until 1954, the year when two paved roads, respectively from neighboring provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan, were open to traffic. In 1965, Tibet's first air route was launched, which connects Lhasa to Chengdu.
Stretching 1,956 km from Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, to Tibet's regional capital Lhasa, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway linking Tibet with the rest of the country opened in 2006. The Lhasa-Nyingchi railway, the region's first electrified railway, started official operation in June this year, with advanced Fuxing bullet trains running on it.
Xi and Tibet -- footprints and blueprint for a green future. Decades ago, millennia-old verdant forests were nothing but a source of income for Jigme, a former logger in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. However, a trip to a local cypress park completely changed his understanding of environmental protection.
With heavy spending on the construction of railway and road facilities, Tibet has seen rapid development and constant improvements to the lives of the locals. Since 2012, more than 337 billion yuan (about 50.4 billion U.S. dollars) has been spent as fixed-asset investment in Tibet's transport sector, according to the region's transport …
The GDP in Tibet soared past 190 billion yuan (about 29.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020 from merely 130 million yuan in 1951, Wang noted. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), Tibet hosted close to 160 million tourist visits. Now 140 flights connect Tibet with the rest of the country and the world.
Assistance projects, especially to develop new industries, have become a major way to fight poverty in Tibet. From 2013 to 2017, over 1,700 assistance projects worth 14.35 billion yuan ($2.08 billion) had been launched, according to a white paper on democratic reform in Tibet released by China's State Council Information Office in March.
With heavy spending on the construction of railway and road facilities, Tibet has fostered rapid development and constant improvements to the lives of the locals. Since 2012, more than 337 billion yuan has been spent as fixed-asset investment in Tibet's transport sector, according to the region's transport department.
A cargo train runs on the prairie in north of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 10, 2019. (Xinhua/Chogo) Photo taken on Oct. 9, 2004 shows the construction site of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
According to the Science and Technology Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in 2012 Tibet's key scientific research project on "phrase-based Tibetan-Chinese statistical machine translation achieved landmark results—the successful application of the "Sunshine Tibetan-Chinese Machine Translation System" project.
