China's Picturesque Tibet Autonomous Region: News & Images

[Götterdämmerung]

The autor of that article is a bit naiv. He thinks that our media has some kind of misunderstanding of the situation in China in general and in Tibet in particular. No, the "misundetanding" is by design.

 

[TaiShang]

The autor of that article is a bit naiv. He thinks that our media has some kind of misunderstanding of the situation in China in general and in Tibet in particular. No, the "misundetanding" is by design.

Indeed. There is no misunderstanding.

There is misrepresentation and information manipulation.

That's why China should never trust the West, especially the US.

 

[yusheng]

The autor of that article is a bit naiv. He thinks that our media has some kind of misunderstanding of the situation in China in general and in Tibet in particular. No, the "misundetanding" is by design.

the autor is not naiv, the audiences of western media some bit naiv who are misled. and the article is for them.

 

[TaiShang]

Any space available for D-Lama?

Tibet to build nursing homes for monks, nuns

Tibet plans to build nursing homes for monks and nuns inside large monasteries.

Nursing homes will be set up in 45 monasteries with more than 100 clergy each in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Be Tsering, deputy director of the region's religious affairs office, told a press conference.

There are more than 46,000 monks and nuns in over 1,700 temples in Tibet.

The regional government contributes 26 million yuan (4.24 million US dollars) annually for the health insurance, pensions and accident insurance of monks and nuns, and offers a free medical checkup every year.

 

[Aepsilons]

These are the kinds of news I like hearing (reading) here in PDF. Such gestures to prioritize ailing religious leaders , many of whom who have a host of psychomotor as well as cognitive disorders are a welcoming sight. As we all know that during the progression of senescence, instances of dementia, parkinson's disease, alzheimer's disease, neuropathies et al are common in said populations. A job well done to the Tibetan Provincial Government, People's Republic of China.

 

[jkroo]

Health care system is building. A characteristics of modern society. Good and keep working.

 

[TaiShang]

Railways are bringing the nation more closely together. This is probably the best remedy against foreign provocations.

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Tickets for Tibet new railway service in hot demand
2014-09-21 Xinhua

Hard seat tickets for the newly-opened Lhasa-Xigaze railway service are as precious as oxygen, as an unexpectedly huge number of travelers opt for to the new means of transportation.

The 251-km railway, linking the regional capital and the second largest city of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, has carried more than 67,000 passengers since it opened on August 15, far more than expected, said Zhao Hailin, deputy head of Lhasa Railway Station.

There are two trains in each direction on the new line every day. It reduces the travel time from four hours by highway to around three hours.

"It's the peak season of tourism in Tibet now, and almost every train is fully packed. We had to arrange more than 20 extra services to cope," said Zhao.

Hard seat tickets sell for 40.5 yuan (6.60 US dollars) each, are most popular and often run out. A hard sleeper costs 116.5 yuan (19 US dollars) and 175.5 yuan (28.60 US dollars) for soft.

"We have begun to put on more hard seat coaches," said Zhao.

Construction of the railway, an extension of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world's highest, started in 2010 and cost 13.28 billion yuan (2.16 billion US dollars).

The new railway brings the total length of operating railways in Tibet to 802 km.

Due to complicated geology, numerous bridges and tunnels and a hefty investment in environmental protection, the cost of the railway exceeded 50,000 yuan per meter on average, making it the most expensive in China's history.

 

[jkroo]

Go to Xizang to clear our minds, purify our souls. Its always a good place for us to learn from the great nature.

 

[cirr]

It is time to fast-track the Lhasa-Nyingchi spur。

 

[cirr]

China begins building largest hydropower station in Tibet

Oct 7, 2014 08:25 IST

Beijing: China has started building its largest hydropower station over the Yalong river in Tibet on Monday to tap the rich water resources in the southwest of the plateau.


Representational image.

The hydropower station, which straddles the Yalong River in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, has an installed generating capacity of three gigawatts with a total reservoir capacity of 10.8 billion cubic metres, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The first generator is expected to come into service at the end of 2021 and the entire station is to be completed in 2023.

The Yalong is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Its source originates from the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southeast Qinghai, and its confluence with the Yangtze is in Panzhihua in southwestern Sichuan.

China has reported to have built about 23 dams of different sizes on the same river.

China also plans to construct huge dams over the Brahmaputra river in Tibet which has raised concerns in India.

A subsidiary of the State Development and Investment Corporation is in charge of the construction and management of the new hydropower station over Yalong river, Xinhua reported.

The hydropower station is among a string of hydroelectric installations that have been built or will be built along the Yalong River.

They are planned to supply electric power to China's southwest regions as well as eastern areas.

China begins building largest hydropower station in Tibet - Firstpost

 

[TaiShang]

China constructs big hydropower station in SW areas

China started to build the largest hydropower station in its Tibetan areas on Monday to tap the rich water resources in the southwest.

The hydropower station, which straddles the Yalong River in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, has an installed generating capacity of three gigawatts with a total reservoir capacity of 10.8 billion cubic meters.

The first generator is expected to come into service at the end of 2021 and the entire station to be completed in 2023.

A subsidiary of the State Development and Investment Corporation is in charge of the construction and management of the hydropower station.

The hydropower station is among a string of hydroelectric installations that have been built or will be built along the Yalong River. They are planned to send electric power to China's southwest regions as well as eastern areas.

 

[TaiShang]

China technically prepares for Qinghai-Tibet Expressway

The nation has the capability to build an expressway linking up Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in west China if major technical barriers are overcome, a chief technical consultant for the planned project said on Tuesday.

If China can overcome the technical barriers, an expressway linking Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in west China is feasible, a senior consultant with the project said Tuesday.

"Technically, we have the confidence to build the Qinghai-Tibet Expressway," Wang Shuangjie, Party chief of the CCCC First Highway Consultants Co., Ltd., said.

Heading a technical support team for the project, Wang said the primary technical barrier lies in the 500-km frozen earth belt along the planned 1,900-km expressway that links Tibet's regional capital of Lhasa with Qinghai provincial capital Xining.

Lhasa is the only regional capital that's not connected by China's expressway network, but the Sichuan-Tibet highway, along with Qinghai-Tibet highway and Xinjiang-Tibet highway, are the three major roads to Tibet.

Extreme conditions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, such as high altitude, low oxygen content, strong solar radiation and freezing temperature, pose challenge to the expressway's construction and its future maintenance, Wang said.

The expressway will span areas where the average altitude is above 4,500 meters and annual average temperature below zero.

Wang and his team also need to address problems concerning the possible environmental effect of the expressway and come up with proper technology to repair the fragile ecological environment once it is damaged.

He said the suggestion to build the expressway based on the existing roadbed of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway is not feasible due to price.

Currently, China has completed the construction of the roadbed of the expressway's 300-km session between Xining and Caka in Qinghai, while construction of the 400-km session linking Xining with Golmud is still under way.

The rest of the 1,100-km section remains a hard nut to crack for engineers, but what was learned in building the high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet railway may help.

Opened in 2006, the highest railway in the world was lauded as an engineering feat for covering hundred of kilometers over harsh terrain and frozen ground.

 

[beijingwalker]

Of course we can easily build highway system in Tibet, see what we built in Xinjiang

Only in Xinjiang,sheep on highways - SkyscraperCity

 

[Kyle Sun]

GOOOOOD!

Connect QH more closely to central provinces.

 

[TaiShang]

Tibet hosts record number of holiday tourists

Tibet saw a record influx of 740,000 tourists during the National Day holiday, said the regional tourism bureau on Wednesday.

From Oct.1 to 7, the region hosted 296,000 overnight tourists and 449,000 one-day travellers. The total number of tourists grew 12.8 percent compared with the same period last year. Tourism revenue hit 337 million yuan ($54.8 million) in the past week.

On Oct. 3, 124,000 tourist arrived, the most for any single day.

With its rich and relatively untapped tourist resources, the southwestern region received 12.9 million domestic and overseas tourists last year, up 22 percent from the previous year. Tourism brought it 16.5 billion yuan of revenue in 2013, or more than one-fifth of the local economy.