Global warming and the cross-border transport of air pollutants have accelerated the melting of glaciers in the Mt. Qomolangma region, but its retreat trend is relatively slow compared with other parts of the world, a Chinese scientist has said.
Five versions of the Four Treatises, an ancient medical book on traditional Tibetan medicine, have been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register at a recent meeting held in Paris, the Hospital of Tibetan Medicine of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region announced on Thursday.
People's happiness is the greatest human right, and development is the key to realizing people's happiness, as stated by President Xi Jinping in a congratulatory letter to a forum on the development of Tibet.
The right to education is key to a person's overall development. For underdeveloped regions and minority groups, education plays an important role in fostering their development.
Chinese scientists recently discovered the fossils of the Himalayasaurus in the Tibet autonomous region, making it the second time they have found similar fossils on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since the 1960s, China Central Television reported.
Nyingchi in the Tibet autonomous region has been combining ecological protection with economic development and improving livelihoods while prioritizing healthy ecological conservation, foreign guests on a local tour were told.
Young scholars and experts actively involved in ecological protection in the Tibet autonomous region hope their passion and fresh ideas can help the region better achieve sustainable development, participants of a forum on the region's development said.
The Tibet autonomous region has made remarkable achievements in high-quality development over the past decade and it will further improve the growth pattern based on its advantages, said officials and experts.
