The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has delivered around 7.51 million passengers and 40.49 million tons of cargos in the previous year. In 2013, new management mechanisms and transportation modes were applied in order to gear up the efficiency of the railway operation, according to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company. The enhanced transportation capacity, for both passengers and…

  There are 1,500 lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau scattering around the snowy mountains like pearls at the altitude of 4,100 to 4,900 meters. They cover an area of 241.83 square kilometers, accounting for one third of the total areas of lakes in China. Among them, the Namtso Lake, the Lake Manasarovar and the Yamdroktso…

  Tibet Autonomous Region received a record 230,000 tourists during the just-ended Spring Festival holiday. The number of visitors from home and abroad to the plateau land over the week-long holiday, which ended on Thursday, grew 7.81 percent year on year, with tourism revenues increasing 13.3 percent to 185 million yuan (30.5 million U.S. dollars).

  In recent years, a growing number of tourists prefer to spend in the Chinese lunar New Year in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet. Every year since the New Year’s Eve, the hotels, big or small, are full of tourists from different corners of China.

  Tibetans have started to prepare for Losar, Tibetan New Year that falls on March 2 this year. The fairs and markets in Tibet’s Shigatse are full of people carrying sheep heads (an essential item for the New Year sacrifice) or Tibetan wooden boxes, and walking in a rush to pick various items for the…

  Nagri, located in northwest Tibet, is the “closest land to heaven”. On top of the world’s roof, this place welcomes its night at about 9pm. Tourists always get lost in the milk way at that moment, which is so pure and magnificent.

Tibetans in Lhasa have been preparing for the new year of both the Tibetan calendar and Chinese lunar calendar. Residents are immersed in purchasing New Year goods, including traditional decorations, clothing and other gifts, which enhances the happy atmosphere in Lhasa.

  With an elevation of 4,718 meters and a surface area of approximately 1,920 square kilometers, Namtso is the biggest lake in Tibet and also the second largest salt lake in China. Namtso Lake is a world of blue. Those who live in Namtso have the largest vocabulary of blue, just like the Inuit people…

  When all nationalities of China are immersed in the celebration of the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, some Tibetan students of the Beijing Tibet Middle School still stay at school without families get-together. According to Li Shicheng, principle of the Beijing Tibet Middle School, nearly 500 Tibetan students chose to stay in…

  The Tibetans celebrated their traditional Fairy Festival, also known as the “Women’s Festival” in modern Tibet, when women treat themselves to go shopping, have magnificent food, and particularly, ask for money from men. The Fairy Festival is celebrated on Oct. 15 in the Tibetan calendar, when various kinds of religious activities are held. On…