Driving Along the Roads （Ⅳ）

On August 24, 2004, a fine day, my friends and I were on our way towards Xigaze after visits to Lhasa and Nyingchi. We didn‘t follow the way most people take. Instead, we took the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. When we got to Yangbajain, we turned onto a gravel road. ““We are building a new section of the Yangbajain-Majiang Highway,““ explained Director Zhan who accompanied us.     

Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅲ）

After the Xikang-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were opened to traffic, other highways were constructed including the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway extending from Yecheng in Xinjiang to Ngari in Tibet, the Lhasa-Yadong Highway, the Lhasa-Zetang Highway, the Xigaze-Tingri Highway and the Heihe-Qamdo Highway. Sand and stone may only have covered these roads,but they were an embryonic form of modem transportation in Tibet and served as a solid foundation for development of modem highways. Until 1959, before the Democratic Reform in Tibet, the overall length of highways totaled 5,648 kilometers, creating a primary Tibetan road network with Lhasa as the center.     

Roads in Shannan in My Eyes——An Interview With Shannan Highway Bureau Director Li Zhanying

He is a Tibetan who, however,speaks perfect Chinese. On his name card, the he uses a Chinese name: Li Zhanying.     

Road That Traverses 1,000 Years

On June 22, 2004, railway constructors laid a line of rail on the earth of Amdo County of Tibet With that act, Tibet said goodbye to its long history without any railway.     

Driving on Roads

On August 11 I flew to Lhasa with the purpose of finding people who could tell me more stories related to what the Tibetan call “the heavenly roads.”     

Tangka Painting Art of the Tibetan Race （Ⅱ）

Tibetan painting art finds expression in two: murals and tangka paintings. The two vary in painting styles and materials used. Tangka paintings show the unique feature of Tibetan fine arts.However, in the face of refined tangka, how one should enjoy it? Do you know how to paint it? How to mount it? Anything special in this regard?Mounting MethodIn Tibet, when a tangka has been created, it would be mounted. The brocade for mounting, called Gyishamo in Tibetan, always has the same dimension: Gyishamo below the tangka amounts to half that of     

Highway Bureau Director On Highway Construction

Editor‘s Note: During the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Qinghai-Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet Highways,we interviewed Song Wangui, director of the Tibet Highway Bureau, on road conditions of the two highways and the transport situation in Tibet.     

Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅱ）

During the period from 1950 toearly in 1951,Chairman Mao Zedong sent a cable to Peng Dehuai, saying:“it is said that the road extending from Qinghai to Tibet is smooth and good”. On December 9, 1950, the PLA Southwest Military Area sent cable to the Central Military Commission: “It is easier to build highways from Yushu to Lhasa by way of Naqu and Qamdo than from Qamdo to Lhasa by way of the 39-Tribe and Taizhao,     

Wealthy Families in Nangka Township

Baima Chasi is a farmer-turned-taxi company manager. She lives in Nangka Township of Donggar Town in Deilungde-qen County in the suburbs of Lhasa. The way she carries herself, and herfacial expression belie her real age of littlover 40. The courtyard of her house is verylarge with a garage spacious enough topark three or four vehicles, in addition to cattle pen. Dried beef of a whole head of cattlehangs in a cool place outside her kitchen. In her sitting room are a lot of flowersSeei…     

Oldest Photos Record Tibetan History

The TAR Archives has since 1959 been gathering photos taken by the first generation of Tibetan photographers. Efforts have been made also to classify these photos and, at the same time, invite some specialists and former Tibetan local government officials such as Shazha Gandain Banjor and relatives of the former photographers to identify the pictures that record an age and a certain special period in history for the instruction of later generations.     

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.     

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Stories About Highways in Tibet （Ⅳ）

Tibet‘s First International Highway The China-Nepal Highway is Tibet‘s only international highway. It extends 1,036 krn from Lhasa to Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. The Tibetan section extends 827 km. Construction of the highway lasted 10 years. Between March 1951 and October 20, 1955, the Lhasa-Xigaze Highway was constructed, bringing to an end a history of the Xigaze region possessing no proper roads. In 1955 the 90-km Xigaze-Gyangze section was constructed, being opened to traffic in October 1955. In 1956, the Lhasa-Yadong Highway was constructed, extending 547 km. In 1958, the Xigaze-Tingri Highway was completed, followed in 1960 by the Lhasa-Burang Highway.     

西藏公路建设漫谈——访西藏交通厅公路局局长宋万贵（下）

下面我想就公路环保、如何关心养路工人的生活、在空中航运量目益加大、地面实现铁路运输后西藏公路的作用问题以及全国人民都一直关注的西藏墨脱公路建设谈一点个人想法。     

西藏：路的故事——西藏公路修筑史话（续二）

自1954年12月康藏、青藏公路通车以后,西藏又开始了新的公路建设,先后修筑了新疆叶城到阿里的新藏公路,拉萨到亚东的拉亚公路,拉萨到泽当的拉泽公路,日喀则到定日的日定公路和黑河到昌都的黑昌公路。当然,这些公路和现在的路不能同日而语,大都只是能粗通汽车的沙石路,但是,它们是西藏现代交通的雏形,为西藏现代公路的发展奠定了很好的基础。到了1959年西藏民主改革以前,     

Challenging the Limit of Life （Ⅰ）

In early November 2004, the TAR Federation of Trade Unions and its female workers committee cited female workers in the forefront of track-laying with the China Railway No. 11 Bureau Group. It was the first time for me to come to Amdo to interview this group of women who toil at an altitude of nearly 5,000 meters in disregard of freezing cold nights.     

My Working Experience in Maidika

Iwent to Tibet to work in 1976, and was dispatched to northern Tibet, and from there to Maidika of Jiali county.     

论岭南开放文化的形态（续）

在改革开放时代的今天,岭南观念化的创新精神更富革命意义和时代精神。有党的领导和党的基本路线的指引,有邓小平建设有中国特色的社会主义理论武装,有现代精神的薰陶,富有革命创新传统的岭南人在改革开放的试验区内进行大胆开拓、实践,十多年来。在经济体制的改革,现代化生产的改造更新、科学化的创造等方方面面的改革,     

藏区要闻

为全区一级文物建档立册 国家文物局主持、自治区文物局承担的西藏一级文物普查建档工作展开,计划2005年完成。普查将把每件文物的形状、大小、年代、质地、已有的历史档案等文字和图片信息明确详细登记,合格数据将进入全国一级文物藏品档案数据库。之后还将开展二级、三级文物的鉴定工作。西藏积极开展文物清理、登记、造册,布达拉宫的62400     

西藏——真实与谎言的实地检验（之二）

本第一部分发表后,反响强烈。作对一个真实西藏的客观审视,表明了国外少数分裂主义分子滥用西方人的信任,他们作的一些所谓“西藏独立”的宣传,根本是经不起调查和真实性检验的。