Over the last week, thousands of residents of Lhasa have joined the work of painting the exterior walls of the Potala Palace, an annual routine "makeover" project for the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The glaciers of the Xizang autonomous region will receive better legal protection with the implementation of regulations that came into effect on Oct 1.
Chinese researchers have discovered two rare species of flying squirrels, Priapomys leonardi and Petaurista nobilis, in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, according to the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Thursday.
Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region has spent a total of 320 million yuan (about $45 million) in recent years on 56 projects for the protection of movable cultural heritage, according to the regional cultural heritage bureau on Friday.
The City of Sunlight, the country's first TV drama to feature modern urban life in Xizang autonomous region, topped the ratings for eight consecutive days during its broadcasting on China Central Television's CCTV-1, according to CVB, a television show statistics collector affiliated with the National Radio and Television Administration.
Once he was a 12-year-old boy painting strokes and grinding pigments from dawn till dusk. Now, four decades later, Niangben stands as a thangka master, passing on the ancient technique to a new generation.