The fish ladder in the irrigation area of the Laluo water conservancy project in Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region, was listed recently in Guinness World Records as the world's highest-altitude fish ladder.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region received more than 2.55 million tourists from home and abroad in the first quarter of this year, raking in tourism revenue of over 2 billion yuan (about 291 million U.S. dollars), regional tourism authorities said on Monday.
The number of experts in Tibetan medicine has been continuously growing in the Tibet autonomous region over the past decade, according to the region's Health Commission at a conference on the development of Tibetan medicine on Wednesday.
Even though the Dalai Lama himself regretted his "suck-my-tongue" offer and apologized "for the hurt his words may have caused" on his Twitter account, some members of the Tibetan "exile parliament" tried to cover it by mixing it with "Tibetan culture", a claim that has already been denied by people who live in Tibet.
A scattering of courtyards, wide and clean roads, and babbling streams are set against a backdrop of jadelike foliage. Beneath a soft blanket of drizzling rain, Kala, a village in the city of Nyingchi in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, lives up to its unique charm as the "Jiangnan of the snowy regions".
Adhering to an equal emphasis on traditional Chinese and Western medicine, the government of the Tibet autonomous region has increased financial investment, formulated supportive policies and promoted the development of Tibetan medicine over the past decade for the high-quality development of traditional Tibetan medicine, said the region's health commission on Wednesday.
The development of the Tibet autonomous region has always been one of the priorities for the central government and the modernization of the autonomous region reflects Chinese modernization, a researcher at the China Tibetology Research Center said.
People from all walks of life in the Tibet autonomous region held various activities on March 28 to mark the 64th anniversary of the liberation of a million serfs.