The BOT project investment promotion conference of the Xichang (Sichuan province) – Shangrila (Yunnan province) Highway was held in Chengdu, South China’s Sichuan province, on April 9. The highway’s construction is expected to kick off this year with a planned construction period of five years. The highway connects the Xichang-Panzhihua (Sichuan province) Highway with…

  Midui Glacier is located in the Yupug Township of Pome County, Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the lowest glacier in the world and also an important oceanic glacier. In 2005, Midui Glacier was rated as one of the most beautiful glaciers in China. The main peak of Midui Glacier is 6800…

  Photo taken on Apr. 17, 2014 shows the vast areas of salt pans in Tsakhalho county, located in the southeast of Tibet with an average altitude of 2,400 meters. As a unique landscape in the world, the salt pan in Tsakhalho has become a tourist magnet. It has been developed as a nature reserve…

  Audiences watch a Thangka exhibition held in the Mass Art Center of Tibet in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 10, 2014. Themed as “artistic charm from fingertip“, the exhibition showcases over 30 pieces of Thangka works from more than 10 inheritors of Khentse genre, a major genre of Tibetan Thangka.

  With a long history of trade contacts, southwest China’s Tibet has developed a close relationship with Nepal. Many Nepalese take Tibet as their second home. And, the “Nepal fever” in Lhasa gets more prevalent with Nepal’s food and condiments imported into the region. Since the 1990s, Nepalese restaurants have sprung up in Lhasa. Besides the famous…

Drak Yerpa, located in Dagze County of Lhasa with at an altitude of around 4,000 meters, is one of the fanes constructed under the order of Songtsen Gampo, the 7th century Tibetan king, as a gift to his concubine, and later became one of the four main monasteries for meditation in Tibet. Famous for its…

As the temperature rises in the spring, more than 40 black-necked cranes migrate to the Hongyuan grassland in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Due to the heavy snow and cold weather at the beginning of this year, the number of black-necked cranes to the Hongyuan grassland decreased compared…

Presenting khada is a widespread etiquette unique to the Tibetan people, which is to show respect or pray for Buddha’s blessings. Khada is often presented to guests and seniors as a way to show respect and regards on festive occasions, weddings and funerals, and to deities out of pious respect or for Buddha’s blessings on…

From May 1 to Oct. 31, admissions to the Potala Palace in Lhasa will be lifted to 200 yuan (32USD) per person which is 100 (16 USD) currently, according to the administration office of the Potala Palace on April 7. The fluctuation is aimed to keep daily tourist capacity steady within 4000 in a bid…

10 eminent monks obtained Lharampa Geshe, the highest degree in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, by passing a traditional sutra debating test in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday. More than 100 monks attended the debating session at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, where the 10 candidates from 10 monasteries of Gelug Sect in…