An Aid-Tibet tour guide tell you why she like to work in Tibet

A tour guide speaking their native language is crucial for many international tourists coming to Tibet. And for most aid-Tibet tour guides, Tibet is a second hometown and a spiritual land.
 
"Everyone finds a different meaning in life and we're not able to judge other people's life quality. Inner richness and peace are the joy of life, something that cannot be measured by material goods." said Yang Yunjing, a post-80s girl from Datong, Shanxi Province.
 
Yang was a tour guide volunteer in Tibet and has won the "Tibet tour guide advanced individual" award and the national "Advanced Tibet Autonomous Region tour guide" award for several times. On Oct 30, 2013, Yang received the recognition and praise from China's National Tourism Administration and the Tibet Autonomous Region when she would leave Tibet after six months of volunteer work there. Tibet is really significant to Yang, who has been there five times as a tour guide. Her parents and friends cannot understand why she chose this particular work, but, amidst all the confusion, Yang just smiles and says, "Tibet has an indescribable charm. Everything becomes simple there, the nearest place to heaven."
 
A total number of 570 volunteer foreign language tour guides have worked in Tibet since 2002, when national aid -Tibet program kicked off to meet the urgent needs of foreign tour guides especially during Tibet’s peak tourist season from the beginning of May to the end of October.
 
Every year since April 2003, two guides would be sent to work in Tibet. In 2008, the aid-Tibet tour guide program was prolonged to the ten years.
 
Between 2003 and 2014, the aid-Tibet tour guides hosted more than 5,500 group tours consisting more than 30,000 arrivals, 10,000 international and 20,000 domestics respectively, as was reported by Tibet Daily.