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Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, the 11th Panchen Lama, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, visits a memorial hall marking the emancipation of more than one million serfs in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 14, 2019.
Celebrations for the traditional Shoton Festival, or Yogurt Festival, will begin in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on Aug. 30, local authorities said Wednesday.
Students learning traditional Tibetan incense making techniques select herbs at an incense workshop in Rangtang County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Aug. 10, 2019.
The GDP in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region totaled about 68.2 billion yuan (about 9.65 billion U.S. dollars), up 9 percent in the first half of 2019, the region’s bureau of statistics said Tuesday.
The hinterland of southwest China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was a warm and humid lowland nourished by warm air from the Indian Ocean 26 million years ago.
As Lhasa has entered the summer holiday travel rush on July 1st, Tibet’s peak tourism season is coming.
Standing 57 meters tall, an estimated 3,200-year-old giant cypress in the Tibet autonomous region has been recognized as the world’s oldest living Yarlung Zangpo River cypress by the World Record Certification Agency.
People wearing hats are seen during a horse racing festival in Nagqu City, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 10, 2019.