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Tibet now has railway, aviation, and highway transport. Water supply, power grids, and the Internet have entered villages and households, Qizhala said, adding that it is a far cry from the old days.
An annual peach blossom festival on Saturday opened in the city of Nyingchi, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, with the number of tourists surging from the previous year.
Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region will keep pace with other parts of the country in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and embarking on a new journey toward socialist modernization, said Qizhala, chairman of the regional government.
Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China on Sunday opened its first memorial hall on the historic movement to end serfdom 62 years ago.
New life began to embrace the family of Basang in 1959, after a democratic reform liberated more than 1 million people, or 90 percent of the population of the region at that time, from the feudal serfdom.
A total of 107 major projects were on Thursday started or resumed in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, according to local authorities.
A railway linking Nyingchi and Lhasa in the Tibet autonomous region is expected to open by the end of June, the Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.
Today, the misery and serfdom that defined the Khesum of old are nothing more than a distant memory. Khesum community, previously Khesum Village, was the first village in Tibet to launch the democratic reform in 1959, when all serfs were liberated from feudal serfdom.