Traveller＇s Tale From Forbidden City （I）——From Zooming Cars to Highrises, Lhasa is a Transformed City

Lhasa: No other land has been transformed so completely as that of Tibet, particularly after the Dalai Lama went into exile in 1959.     

World＇s First Nightingale Award Male Winner

Balsang Dengzhub, a nurse with the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture People＇s Hospital, will remember forever August 5, 2003. It was on that day he received the 39th Nightingale Award certificate issued by the International Red Cross from CPC General Secretary and President Hu Jing tao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He thus became the first Tibetan to win the award named after the British medical pioneer Florence Nightingale （1820-1910） and also the first Chinese male.     

Lobsang Dainzin in No-Man＇s Area

Living in the residential area behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Lobsang Dainzin recalls how he worked for 26 years on the Northern Tibet Plateau, with the first 17 years in Xainzha,Wenbo and Shuanghu. At that time,Xainzha County covered 190,000 square km, but with two-thirds of it considered to be a no-man‘s land. Nyima County and the Shuanghu Special Administrative Area now occupy this latter area.     

Absurd Worries——Certain People＇s Reaction to Construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway

About 50 years ago, people going into and out of Tibet could only rely on their own backs and pack-horses to transport something. Then,it would take more than 100 days to go to the hinterland from Lhasa, and a round trip would take about a year. The QinghaiTibet Railway will tell the world that the only region without a railway in China will soon lose this title. This is obviously an exciting and great event!     

阿沛·阿旺晋美的百年人生

2009年12月23日16点50分,阿沛·阿旺晋美走完了他辉煌的百年人生。1910年2月,他出生于西藏拉萨市墨竹工卡县甲玛乡一个有名望的家庭,1950年任西藏地方政府噶伦兼昌都总管。1951年2月,他作为西藏地方首席全权代表,同中央人民政府签订了关于和平解放西藏办法的协议,为西藏的和平解放发挥了重要作用。