Drakmuk Railway Station, situated at an altitude of 4,721 meters on the Qinghai-Xizang Railway, began passenger services on Thursday, making it the highest-altitude passenger station along the railway line on "the roof of the world."
A gathering was held on Tuesday at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the enthronement of Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po, according to Xizang Daily.
Drakmuk Railway Station, situated at an altitude of 4,721 meters on the Qinghai-Xizang Railway, began passenger services on Thursday, making it the highest-altitude passenger station along the railway line on "the roof of the world."
Niu Xue, a college teacher in Wuhan, Hubei province, has visited the Xizang autonomous region at least once a year for the past 21 years, recording the region's changes with his camera and bringing the mysterious land closer to his students.
Xizang, a region known for its breathtaking landscapes and unique cultural traditions, has long become a target of Western smear campaigns and falsehoods about China.
This photo taken on Dec. 8, 2025 shows flamingos resting in Tiaozini wetland in Dongtai of Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province. Recently a flock of flamingos arrived here to overwinter.
A new study by Chinese scientists has advanced understanding of the mechanism and impact of permafrost collapse, particularly thaw slumps, on the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Northwest China's Qinghai province, a major clean energy hub, sent its first batch of renewable electricity to the country's northeastern region through a multi-provincial grid coordination mechanism on Monday.
Chinese scientists have proposed new insights into how alpine ecosystem carbon cycling may respond to long-term climate change via a long-term study of plant phenological events in alpine grasslands, according to the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A film depicting the developmental journey of Tsonyi, China's highest-altitude county in Xizang Autonomous Region, is scheduled for nationwide release on Dec. 16.
Since the launch of the five-year transition period to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively integrate them with rural revitalization, Xizang Electric Power, the State Grid, has played an exciting era of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and promoting rural revitalization on a snowy plateau
On the roof of the world, where thin air brushes against snow-capped peaks, a new aroma is joining the scents of pine and frost: freshly ground coffee. In the far reaches of western China, a wave of young entrepreneurs from the Pamir frontier to the back alleys of Lhasa is quietly reshaping the rhythm of the plateaus.
According to the third national survey of livestock and poultry genetic resources conducted in 2021, there were just 19 heads of Zhangmu cattle in Xizang's Xigaze City.
In Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, a citizen surnamed Li received a parcel recently. It was a smart learning tablet he had purchased via China's leading online shopping platform JD.com.
A five-day "snow break" for primary and secondary school students started in northeast China's Jilin Province from Wednesday, as multiple snow-themed vacations are implemented across the country to facilitate winter travel and sports participation amid the upcoming winter tourism peak.
This winter, Nicolas de Fermor, a passionate French skier, traded the familiar for the unexpected. He set off on an inaugural journey to northwest China's Xinjiang, where a booming ice-and-snow tourism season is drawing an increasing number of international tourists.
China's man-made carbon emissions rose 0.6 percent in 2024, a significantly slower pace than the previous year and below the global average growth rate, the country's meteorological authority said on Wednesday, indicating that efforts to meet the country's climate commitments are gaining momentum.
For the past 54 years, Wang Cheng has shared his life with some noisy neighbors. Every morning from 5 to 7 and every evening from 5 until sunset, his neighbors fill the air with their chatter, chirps, squawks and trills, seemingly oblivious to the presence of human residents nearby.
Multi-types of transport helicopters attached to an aviation brigade under the Chinese PLA Xizang Military Command lift off successively from the parking apron during a flight training exercise on November 23, 2025.
As evening descended, People's Daily reporters followed staff members from Shaanxi Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve to a natural roosting site to observe the return of the birds.
The harsh winter winds of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to worry herder Sonam Tsering in a very specific way. They would blow plastic bags away from the nearby rubbish dumps, sending them swirling through the air before settling across pastures.
As winter blankets Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, the vibrant landscape belies the scientific milestone it houses: a 30-square-meter "vault of life" -- the seed bank of the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center for Chenshan Botanical Garden
The Taklimakan Desert sand-blocking green belt project in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which celebrated its first anniversary on Friday, has effectively protected surrounding oases, farmland and grasslands by curbing desert expansion, with sand sources now under control.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as Asia's "water tower", holds an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of surface water storage, a resource scientists say is increasingly vital to water security for more than two billion people across the continent.
