March 26, 2019 -- A rider shoots an arrow on horse back in Ali, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, July 29, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Rufeng) (zwx)

Tibet's GDP grew by 9.1 percent in 2018, and was among the nation's fastest.

A new 450-km-long railway is being built between Lhasa and Nyingchi, a sure impetus to tourism. It is part of a grand plan to build a new railway from Lhasa to Chengdu, capital city of neighboring Sichuan Province in Tibet's southeast, via Nyingchi.

In a bid to attract more tourists during the winter, the region has rolled out a spate of preferential policies including waiving admission charges for some scenic spots and discounted flight tickets during the winter season.

Tibet received 2.46 million tourists from Nov. 1 last year to March 15, up 84.2 percent year on year, and the region's tourism industry brought in around 2.62 billion yuan during the same period, a year-on-year growth of 41.1 percent, according to the regional tourism development department. Enditem