In the depths of winter, a black-necked crane national nature reserve in Lhundrub county, Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, welcomes large flocks of migratory black-necked cranes.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as Asia's "water tower", holds an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of surface water storage, a resource scientists say is increasingly vital to water security for more than two billion people across the continent.
Xizang autonomous region's foreign trade has accelerated rapidly during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), driven by expanding markets, upgraded ports and new trade models.
The Tibetan large language model, SunshineGLM V1.0, the first Tibetan foundation model in China with hundreds of billions of parameters, was launched on Nov 19 in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region.
When surgeon Dorje Tsering finally stepped out of the operating theater after taking the lead on a major procedure for the first time in June, he felt utterly drained.
Despite gradually getting accustomed to the thin air at 4,700 meters in Nagqu since arriving in the Xizang autonomous region early last year, neonatologist Tian Congliang still wears a backpack-sized portable oxygen concentrator at all times.
The second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition has become a driving force behind ecological protection legislation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, academicians said at a news conference in Lhasa.