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Clean air in Tibet

Beautiful sky with clean air in Tibet[Photo/Xiinhua] According to the forecase, Beijing and some parts of China will have smog next five days. In contrast smoggy Bejing, Tibe ..

Tibet’s outward hydropower transmission capacity reaches 330 million kwh

Up to now, Tibet has transmitted totally 330 million kwh of hydropower outwards, with the maximum outward power transmission capacity reaching 300,000 kw. Both are all-time high, Da ..

Tibetan medicine posts 200 mln dollars in output value

The total output value of traditional Tibetan medicine has topped 1.3 billion yuan (201 million U.S. dollars), thanks to growing demand across China for the ancient herbal therapy. There ar ..

Saving a Tibetan Tradition

Trinley's home in Lhozhag county, Shannan prefecture[Photo provided to China Daily] According Tenzin, parents were Lamamani performers. In an interview with T ..

Tibet discovered over 50 types of supposing new medical ingredients

In recent years, the achievements gained from general investigation on pilot field-assignments regarding Tibet’s Chinese (Tibetan) medicine resources indicates that, presen ..

Tibet sees remarkable reduction of illiteracy rate

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has seen its illiteracy rate of people aged between 15 and 60 nearly halved during the past five years, according to local educational authorities. ..

Winners of the "Charming Tibet" photography contest announced

Photographers from China and abroad as well university foreign exchange students have responded enthusiastically to the "Charming Tibet" photography contest, sponsored by Tibet Online, ..

Tibet's largest Buddhist grotto ruins site mural replication project completed

Completely replicated Buddhist grotto murals. Personnel in the midst of replication work. The proportional project for Tibet's largest ruin site & ..

Panchen Lama: Tibetan Buddhism has entered the golden age of development

A few days ago, the 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, vice-President of Chinese Buddhist Association, indicated that, nowadays, Tibetan Buddhism plays an important role in promot ..

Endangered Tibetan talking-singing art recorded for preservation

The culture department in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has finished recording a traditional folk talking and singing performance order to preserve the dying tradition, regiona ..

Grain output in Tibet exceeds one million tons for the first time

Grain output in Tibet has reached a historic high, exceeding one million tons to 1.01 2015, with about 700 thousand of highland barley. Du Jie, Director the Ministry ..

Armed police force conducts extreme training in Tibet

KFC to open first restaurant in Tibet

Fast-food giant KFC is opening its first US-style fried chicken restaurant early next yearin a shopping mall in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region. The two-story ..

Ethnic minority areas of Sichuan province to receive 15 years of free education

At a press conference held on Dec. 10, director of Sichuan Provincial Department Education Zhu Shihong told the reporters that since spring semester 2016, 51 counties in ethnic autonomo ..

Tibetan NPC delegation visits France

Tibet Autonomous Region NPC Standing Committee Chairman, Padma Choling, led an delegation to France beginning on the 9th. They met with Deputy Speaker of French Senate, Herve Marseille, in Pa ..

Gampo Glaciers

Pumaqangtang Township, with the elevation of 5,375 meters, is located in southwest Nakartse County Lhoka, Tibet, neigboring Bhutan. Gampo Glaciers about 70 kilometers from Pumaq ..

Tibet’s Metok county enters new era with stable power supply

Currently, in Tibet’s Metok county, the first unit hydropower station titled "Yarang Station" as well a power line extension project connecting it to resident household was formally put ..

The Panchen Lama is a guide for positive energy

"Currently, I have had the honor of conducting a deep discussion with Panchen Lama, and through these conversations been able to feel his profound Buddhist attainments. He is guide for p ..

Modern green industrial base takes shape in Lhasa

The Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone [Photo/Chinatibetnews.com] During the period of 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), has ..

9.2 bln yuan invested on poverty relief in Tibet during 12th Five Year Plan

During the "12th Five-Year Plan", Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund reached its highest level in history, with total special poverty relief investments reaching 9.19 billion yuan, 6.56 mor ..

Tibet’s first ancient human ruins restored

The Karub cultural relic in Chamdo, Tibet[File photo/Baidu] The restoration of Tibet’s first ancient human ruins has been completed recently, Xinhua and People’s Daily reported. ..

Charity event focuses on Tibetan children with congenital heart disease

The "Colorful Kelsang Flower" charity press conference, themed around "caring for Tibetan children with congenital heart disease", was held in Beijing on Dec. 6. movie t ..

Panchen Lama chairs Tibet Development Fund

The 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, has been elected chairman of Tibet Development Fund, a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Lama said he will work hard to help develop ..

rotection center saves over 300 endangered Tibetan antelope

A protection center for Tibetan antelope established in the Hoh Xil national nature reserve 2004 has helped protect over 300 antelopes against poaching, according to center. an ..