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This year marks the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet autonomous region and implementation of the socialist system, which fostered equality, unity, mutual assistance and common prosperity of all ethnic groups in the region.
Naqu city in southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region has set up animal husbandry cooperatives, as part of the efforts to help local herdsmen shake off poverty.
The 42-year-old Tibetan farmer is pleased to work at this orchard as it is a stable job and takes her only 15 minutes to ride from her home in Samye township, in the Dranang county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region.
President Xi Jinping called for efforts to build a new modern socialist Tibet at the two-day seventh Central Symposium on Tibet Work, which ended in Beijing on Saturday. Here are some highlights from his speech at the symposium.
China has set the policy direction for developing the Tibet autonomous region in the new era, focusing its Tibet-related work on safeguarding national unity and strengthening ethnic solidarity while improving people’s well-being.
Xi called for efforts to ensure national security and enduring peace and stability, steadily improve people’s lives, maintain a good environment, solidify border defense and ensure frontier security.
An international panel of experts reached that consensus at a seminar titled “Risk and Cooperation: the Fourth International Symposium on Himalayan Studies.”
From January to June of this year, Lhasa City, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, received 3.9 million tourists, realizing 5.67 billion yuan RMB revenue, according to Lhasa Tourism Development Bureau.