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Travel notes: Serthar, a golden horse on the white ice fields (II)
update:March 28,2017
By:China Tibet Online
March 21,2017
 



March 21,2017--Serthar is located at the border of Sichuan and Qinghai, between Amdo and Gampa. Regardless of which direction you’re looking from, it is very far from big cities, such as Chengdu, Xining, Lhasa and Kunming. Even for its own autonomous prefecture capital of Kangding, it is still more than 440 kilometers away.
 
Until the 1950s, there was still a tribal system in Serthar. No government in fact had administrative jurisdiction over the area and construction was out of the question. When the administrative body entered Serthar in 1952 to establish a county, there were only 30 black and white tents. It wasn’t until 1956 that the first stone and wood bungalow in the current county location was built.
 
Influenced by natural and historic conditions, the level of social development in Serthar is relatively low, but the religious climate is particularly strong.

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