A swishing sound traveled through the sun-bathed village as another busy day kicked off at a woodcarving workshop in Bolo township of Qamdo city, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has poured 12.7 billion yuan (about $1.8 billion) on ecological protection over the past decade, authorities said.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region poured more than 3.8 billion yuan (about $535.2 million) into 386 cultural heritage conservation projects in the past decade, both record high figures, authorities said on Saturday.
The gross domestic product of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region grew by an annual average of 9.5 percent from 2012 to 2021, 2.9 percentage points higher than the national average.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region received 258.4 million tourists from 2012 to 2021, achieving a total tourism revenue of 334.5 billion yuan (about $47.1 billion), authorities said on Friday.
As the sun reflects off the summits of distant mountains, Tenzin Dondrub takes a final sip of his butter tea from his wooden bowl and heads out to his office.
In a studio on the top floor of a three-story Tibetan-style house in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Phuntsok Tobgye and his apprentices are busy working on a thangka painting, measuring more than 10 meters in length and nearly three meters in width.
