LHASA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, traversing 14 mountains over 4,000 meters high and with a length of over 2,000 kilometers, opened
Before the democratic reform of Tibet in 1959, with heavy taxes and under the exploitation of usury, Sangpa and his family have undergone a hellish life of serfs.
She remembered clearly that when she was 10 years old, she learned to sing an idyll with her herding companions. After the lord found out, she was beaten black and blue and nearly had her tongue cut out.
Cedain, born in 1941, is a villager of Qianjin Village of Gar County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. Without farmland and enough food, the former serf and his family lived on begging in the old times.
According to Tibet Autonomous Region Administration of CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China), Terminal 3 of Lhasa Gonggar Airport will be put into use on Aug. 7 this year.
Compared with road transportation, it reduces travel time between Lhasa and Nyingchi from five hours to about 3.5. As of July 25, some 106,000 passengers have traveled on the 435-km railway.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has held various colorful activities since this year.
