February 16

On Feb. 16, 1996, the Communiqué of 1995 Population Sample Survey in Tibet Autonomous Region, co-issued by the Department of Statistics and the Office of Population Sample Survey in Tibet Autonomous Region, pointed out that the total population in the region reached 2.389 million as of October 1, 1995, 193,000 people more than the total number of the fourth population census on July 1, 1990, with an annual increase rate of 1.6 percent.

On Feb. 16, 1988, a message of congratulations sent by the Party and government organs in Tibet Autonomous Region to the 10th Panchen Lama Choekyi Gyaltsen for his fifty-year-old birthday. The message of congratulations praised the 10th Panchen’s great contribution to Tibet’s prosperity and people’s livelihood and paid tribute to him.