Highway Project Undertaken for the Railway Project

Given the special geologicalconditions and fierce weath-er Tibet used to be land-locked. Development of itstransportation always has the uppermostattention of the Central Government.One of the roads built following thepeaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951 isthe 1, 130-km Qinghai-Tibet Highway Maintenance of the highway at anelevation over 4,000 meters calls forHercu1ean efforts. For this purpose, theCentral Government threw in hugeinvestment to guarantee the smoothtransportation of articles for daily use.As the highway carries 90 percent of thegoods and 70 percent of the passengersentering Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet High-     

THE DEVELOPMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN TIBET

In the past, a letter sent from Tibet to inland China often took almost half a year to arrive. In Tibet, people had to walk a long way, and then waited in a long queue for access to a fixed phone. Because of the poor state of telecommunications in Tibet in those early days, people in Tibet heard and saw little of the wonderful world outside. This in turn created an even greater apparent distance between Tibet and that outside world.     

My Elder Brother Sakhong Tsering Dorje

Mr. Sakhong Tsering Dorje was born in 1912 in Kanggu Village of Dromo Town of Tibet. About 1951, he made substantial contributions to the peaceful liberation of Tibet and became a well-known patriot. He took the posts of deputy director of the office of Kyika in Dromo, member of the CPPCC of Gyantse County and member of the CPPCC of the Tibet Autonomous Region respectively.     

NewBooks：A Handbook of Tourism in Tibet

Have you ever been in Tibet？ Do you want to enjoy your holiday？ Why not go to Tibet, where you can see the blue Sky with flaky clouds, green hills with blossoming flowers, snowcapped mountain peaks, great rivers and beautiful lakes, dense virgin forests, Tibetan antelopes and wild yaks running in the vast grassland, picturesque villages and age-old Tibetan monasteries. All of these are just part of the beauty that can be found in Tibet. Tibet is really a lively and lovely place where one can calm down one＇s vexation and impulsiveness being transported in a whirl of clouds to a world truly apart. So don＇t hesitate about going to Tibet for a visit. There are several ways of getting to Tibet： either by air or by going overland. Many highways connect Tibet and other parts of China.     

蕃尼古道及其宋元明清时期的主要遗迹（英文）

<正>Ancient Tubo-Nepal Road, namely, the ancient road from Lhasa in Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal, is one of the crucial main roads connecting Tibet and inner China with Nepal, India and Central Asia and it is also a pivotal part of the Silk Road. Since its initiation, it not only has generated huge political, economic, social and cultural impact on Tibet but also has greatly influenced the communication between     

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.     

COMFORTABLE HOUSING AND HAPPY LIVES OF TIBETAN FARMERS AND HERDERS

In 2006, a hot topic arose in regard to Tibetan economic development. This was the“ comfortable housing project”. A range of new houses and enumerable new villages are rising above the ground at accessible sights such as the sides of roads and grasslands close to villages. Beaming smiles are fixed on the faces of farmers and herders while they are moving into new houses. Since the beginning of 2006, Tibet has launched a comfortable housing project to settle herders, transferring living places for the sak...     

生机勃勃的藏东南

It was not long ago that I took National Highways 318,212,and 317 to get to Nyingchi and Chamdo and conduct various interviews.The place is a mysterious land in the southeastern reaches of Tibet,and while I was there,I saw development and vitality everywhere as a result of the prosperity sweeping across the region.     

生机勃勃的藏东南（英文）

正It was not long ago that I took National Highways 318,212,and 317 to get to Nyingchi and Chamdo and conduct various interviews.The place is a mysterious land in the southeastern reaches of Tibet,and while I was there,I saw development and vitality everywhere as a result of the prosperity sweeping across the region.     

FORGING AHEAD TIBET'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS

<正>Leapfrog Progress in Infrastructural Development Tibet is most certainly progressing in convenience of transportation.Across the whole region,roads increased from 63.1thousand kilometers in 2011 to 82.1 thousand kilometers in 2016,and by the end of 2016,the total length of operational     

New Books

正The Second Long March-On-the-spot record of marching to and liberating Tibet Jampal Gyatso,the author,joined in the Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA)when he was just twelve years old.He witnessed the whole process of marching to Tibet to liberate the people there.This march is referred to as"the second long march"by Marshal Liu Bocheng.During this period,the author took the role as a Chinese-Tibetan interpreter to work amongst     

Successful Female Mountaineers

The Third Mountaineering Meet took place from September 26 to October 8, 2003. It was sponsored by the Tibet Association for Mountaineers and undertaken by the Tibet Mountaineering Team and the Tibet Mountaineering School.     

ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION AND FOREST INDUSTRY IN TIBET

EDITOR'S NOTE: I recently interviewed Ngabu, Directorof the Forest Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region.The following are highlights of the interview.Question: Mr. Director, could you pleasetell me something about efforts Tibetwill make to build up its forestry management?Answer: Surely. According to the 10-yearprogram our Bureau worked out in 2000,Tibet will spend some 500 million Yuan to protect natural forests in the three counties ofMamkang, Gongjor and Gyangda on the upperrea…     

Road Network In Xigaze

In the 13th century, the SagyaRegime put an end to the separatesituation in Tibet, under which theTibetan political and cultural center. Mis-sives and envoys between the SagyaGovernment and the Central Govern-ment were sent via the mountain postroads. It took dozens of days to walkfrom Lhasa to Xigaze, a distance of only228 km. In 1779, the 6th Panchen Erdeniwent to Beijing for the 70th birthday ofQing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong. It tookhim several months to walk from theTashilhungpo Monastery to the TarMonastery in Qinghai, and altogether a     

A Brief Description of Tibetan Residential Architecture

The Tibet Autonomous Region covers an area of1.2 million square kilometers.It stretches 2000 kilo-meters from east to west,and 1000 kilometers fromnorth to south.With such a vast area,Tibet has uniquetopographies and landforms,as well as a complex eco-logical environment.The northwest of the TibetanPlateau has a cold climate because of its high altitude,and it is mainly pastoral.With a lower altitude,a mildclimate and plenty of rain,the southeast is suitable forplanting crops,so is mainly agricultural and agricul-tural-pastoral.In addition,the middle and lowerreaches of the Yarlung Zangbo (Yar-Klung gtsang-po)River and the Valleys of Three Rivers consist of vastareas with dense primeval forests.Inhabitants fromvarious ethnic groups,with Tibetans as the majority,are scattered in agricultural,pastoral,and forested     

-CHINA GUANGCAI PROGRAM IN TIBET HELD IN LHASA

The activity of China Guangcai Program in Tibet, jointly organized by China Guangcai Society and the government of Tibet Autonomous Region, was held in Lhasa from August 4 to 5, 2013. More than 600 enterprises from 30 provinces all over the country took part in the activity. o During the activity, 229 contracts were signed with a total investment of 361.31 billion Yuan. China Guangcai Founda tion donated 18 million Yuan for the construction of Senior＇s House in Chushur County. China Minsheng Bank donated 40 million Yuan in the next four years for the treatment of children with congenital heart disease in Tibet. Qizheng Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd donated 11 million Yuan to build a cultural institute in Lhundrup County and two Tibetan clinics respectively in Nagqu and Nyingchi.     

Use of Cow Dung as Fuel

Turf and cow dung, especially the latter, are major sources of fuel in most of the areas in Tibet other than the southern forests.     

Wind-Horse Flags: Communication between Man and All Things under Heaven

In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, colorful sutra streamers catch the eye everywhere. They join snow-capped peaks, grassland, wilderness and glistening monasteries to form a unique sight in Tibetan-inhabited areas.Derivation Tibetans believe that, in Tibet, the eudemons of the lofty and precipitous peaks, rivers and wilderness overgrown with grass, are the gods of heaven and earth, who often patrol the snowy mountains, forests, grasslands and gorges riding on a wind- horse to insure that peace pr…     

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.     

PROMOTION OF TIBET’S NATURAL DRINKING WATER HELD IN BEIJING

<正>Themed as"Tibet's Good Water,the World to Share",the promotion was held in the Great Hall of the People,Beijing on Nov.27,2014 in order to boost Tibet's high-quality water further into domestic and foreign markets.Many famous water brands of Tibet took part in the activity,such as Qomolangma Glacier,5100,Sunbara,Droma Spring.Chinese Academy of