March 11

On March 11, 2003, the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China issued the White Paper on Ecological Improvement and Environmental Protection in Tibet.

The White Paper contains five parts including progress of the ecological improvement and environmental protection work in Tibet, ecological improvement and biodiversity protection, ecological improvement and environmental protection amid economic development, building an ecology-friendly railway line -- the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and the strategic choice for sustainable development. It states the ecological environment situation and efforts made by Chinese government to protect and improve the ecology in Tibet.

On March 11, 1986, the Tibet Autonomous Regional Party Committee and People’s Government asked the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council for instructions of additional funds for a holy stupa and a worship chapel to be built for the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth Panchen Lamas.