China is to support the capital market in Tibet in the long term, the head of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) told a meeting on Monday.
China is to support the capital market in Tibet in the long term, the head of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) told a meeting on Monday.
Living with very little electricity in a village in the plateau region of Tibet, Cering Lhamo spends most of her winter nights bored and shivering in temperatures around 15 degrees Celsius below zero.
Though the degree to which U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will interact Thursday during the National Prayer Breakfast is unclear, any possible meeting or encounter between the two is sure to have negative consequences because the Dalai Lama is a political liability which backfires.
The inclusive development in China's Tibet Autonomous Region is the prime keynote of the human rights progress in the remote region, says a Chinese scholar.
While several Chinese provinces have lowered their growth targets amid an economic downturn, the plateau region of Tibet has maintained a 12-percent growth target for 2015 with strong investment from the central government.
For years, the preference for traditional home deliveries in Tibet have pushed up the region's infant mortality rate (IMR), but improved maternal care has reversed the trend.
Sonam Droma quit her comfortable job in the public sector three years ago to set up an online store that sells traditional goods from the Tibet autonomous region.
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region announced Thursday it has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a second child if either parent is an only child.
Twenty traditional Tibetan doctors received government awards Wednesday for their outstanding skills and contribution to the preservation of the ancient practice.
Wearing a brand-new Tibetan robe and grasping prayer beads, Kunga Samdrup was excited embarking on his first pilgrimage into Tibet via train.
Cering Yangzom, an ethnic Monba living deep in Tibet's mountains, never thought her pastime singing to the odd tourist traveling through her small village would ever become more than a pleasant diversion.
Since British novelist James Hilton introduced the fictional "Shangri-la" to Western readers eight decades ago, foreign minds have often perceived Tibet as a mystical but harmonious paradise.
The number of foreigners traveling to China's Tibet Autonomous Region increased by over 13 percent year on year in the first five months of 2014, local authorities said on Saturday.
China has vowed to further promote the development of transport infrastructures in Tibet to make travels on "the roof of the world" much easier.
Authorities in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region are enacting a new legally-binding regulation to safeguard the heritage and development of the Tibetan language, local authorities said Monday.
The Chinese government on Tuesday issued a white paper on west China's Tibet Autonomous Region, detailing its comprehensive development and rapid progress over the past 60-plus years.
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