Emergency workers help transfer packs of highland barley retrieved from debris for a farmer in Chamco Township, Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 13, 2025.
The government is so concerned about us. We will overcome the difficulties!” a villager in Zuocuo Village, Qulho Township, Dingri County, Xigaze, the Xizang Autonomous Region told the journalist.
On January 11, the people of Gurum Village, Chamco Township, one of the worst-hit villages by the earthquake in Dingri County, the Xizang Autonomous Region, have moved from tents to portable houses.
Currently, local authorities and rescue teams are busy erecting makeshift houses, allowing displaced residents to move from tents to more earthquake-resistant housing.
A memorial service was held on Monday morning in Dingri county, Xizang autonomous region, to mourn the victims of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri last week.
Zongbu Monastery, with a history of more than 600 years, is a nunnery on the hillside. Tenzin Quzong was still scared when recalling the earthquake at that time.
Cedain Lhamo, a trauma counselor at a relocation site in Dingri County, grew concerned when she saw a young girl covering her ears and fleeing in distress during an aftershock, even though the girl was outdoors and in the open.
The 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri county, Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region caused varying degrees of damage to temples in the epicenter region.
Tan Xiren, an expert of the Institute of Psychology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other members of a psychology support team arrived on Thursday at different temporary settlements in quake-hit Dingri County.
At a resettlement site on Sunday, Tan Xiren handed out paintbrushes, drawing papers and candies to disaster-affected children from the earthquake-struck Qulho Township of Dingri County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
On Sunday morning, at a newly-built resettlement site in the earthquake-struck county of Dinggye, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, children were doing their homework inside warm makeshift houses, undisturbed by occasional jolts of aftershocks and the chilling winds howling through the Himalayas.
The quick and efficient response to the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang attests to China's good governance and its tenet of putting the people and their lives first.
After the 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Dingri County, Xigaze City, the Xizang Autonomous Region, Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, chanted prayers for the earthquake-hit areas several times.
His face covered by dust and sweat, his fingernails bloodied and dirty, police officer Dondrub Tsering dug through the debris of fallen buildings with his bare hands to hunt for survivors after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Dingri county in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday morning.
Workers build mobile houses in Quxar Township of Lnaze County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025.
Residents make bed inside a mobile house at a temporary resettlement site in Gurum Village in Chamco Township of Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025.
Qinghai Lake, the largest inland saltwater lake in China, has been expanding in size continuously for the past 20 years. The latest satellite remote sensing found that the lake's water surface had reached 4650.08 square kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 28.1 square kilometers.
he China Children and Teenagers' Fund and the China Women's Development Foundation, both of which are under the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), have raised 13.75 million yuan (about 1.9 million U.S. dollars) in funds and supplies for earthquake relief in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Dingri County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning.
China's Qinghai-Xizang Plateau has made a breakthrough in mineral exploration. Since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), more than 20 million tons of new copper resources have been added, with projected stockpiles reaching 150 million tons, according to a press release sent to the Global Times by the China Geological Survey on Monday.
All units of the Maerdang Hydropower Station, the highest-altitude facility of its kind on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, were connected to the grid in Qinghai Province on Tuesday.
Over the past three decades, numerous medical professionals from different regions across the country have come to Xizang, providing targeted, systematic and long-term assistance for the region while also building local capacities for self-sustaining development.
On that day, in the warm sun in winter of Lhasa, more than 6,000 citizens and tourists met in Norbu Lingka to enjoy the feast of different styles of music including ballads, rock, and folk music.
Recently, the dividend distributing ceremony was held in Zangbi Township, Lhari County, Nagqu City, the Xizang Autonomous Region. It was bustling with people and filled with a warm atmosphere, as bright smiles shone on the faces of the villagers.
The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, often referred to as the "roof of the world," was once considered so inaccessible that "only the mighty eagles of the plateau could fly over."
