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Jan 9, 2025 | 
chinadailyhk.com | Palden Nyima |Zou Shuo
Collective effort calms frayed nerves in disaster-affected villages of Xizang autonomous regionHis face covered by dust and sweat, his fingernails bloodied and dirty, police officer Dondrub Tsering dug through the debris of fallen buildings with his bare hands to hunt for survivors after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Dingri county in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday morning. The police officer and his colleagues arrived at one of the worst hit villages within half an hour of the quake.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
chinadailyhk.com | Palden Nyima |Chen Meiling |Cao Desheng
Xi calls for speedy response, stresses need to prevent secondary disasters after Xizang deathsPresident Xi Jinping ordered all-out rescue efforts to save lives and minimize casualties following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Dingri county of Shigatse in the Xizang autonomous region on Jan 7. The earthquake occurred at 9:05 am at a depth of 10 kilometers, claiming 126 lives and injuring 188 people.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
chinadailyhk.com | Palden Nyima
Following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake, which jolted Dingri county in Shigatse of Xizang autonomous region at 09:05 am on Tuesday, the Mount Qomolangma (Everest) Scenic Area has been completely closed, Fengmian News reported. According to public information, Dingri county is a must-pass route to Mount Qomolangma and the closest stopping point for mountain climbers and tourists heading to the world's tallest mountain.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
enapp.chinadaily.com.cn | Palden Nyima
The Chinese side of Mount Qomolangma received 13,764 international tourists in 2024, mainly from Singapore, Malaysia, Germany and France, according to the culture and tourism bureau of Dingri county in the Xizang autonomous region. The number of tourists in 2024 more than doubled from the previous year, an indication of the increased international tourism following China's relaxation of visa policies, Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
chinaservicesinfo.com | Palden Nyima
Nearly 1,000 thangka paintings have been cataloged, appraised, and scanned in high definition in the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, since the palace began digitizing them in early March, said the Cultural Relics Research Office of the Potala Palace Management Office. Thangka is a unique form of painting in Tibetan culture, typically a religious scroll painting mounted on colored silk and hung for worship.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
chinaservicesinfo.com | Palden Nyima
Operating picnic camp sites has become one of the main income sources and a way of rural revitalization for villagers in Dagtse district of Lhasa, the Xizang autonomous region in recent years. Enriched with the plateau landscape and unique Tibetan traditional cultures, mountains, parks, lawns, and streams, Dagtse is an ideal place for picnics for both local residents and tourists. Tibetans call having picnics as having lingka.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
chinaservicesinfo.com | Palden Nyima
In August 2014, Beijing began dispatching teachers to support the Xizang autonomous region as part of a pilot project. The first group of 50 teachers was sent to the Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School as part of a group-style educational support system for Xizang. Since then, Beijing has dispatched nearly 300 education professionals to support teaching at the school. They share their experience and techniques with local teachers and help drive the area's educational development.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
asianews.network | Yan Dongjie |Palden Nyima
September 4, 2024 LHASA – July is not only one of the busiest times of year for wildlife rangers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but also a time of great care and responsibility. Here, rangers and researchers at the Xizang Changtang National Nature Reserve, located at an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, observe and monitor the mass migration of Tibetan antelopes.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
chinadailyhk.com | Chen Meiling |Palden Nyima
Treatment, public awareness about diseases improved through national programFifteen years after returning from the Xizang autonomous region, endocrinologist Li Naishi is still devoted to the treatment and prevention of diabetes in the region. Li helped establish the endocrinology department at the Xizang Autonomous Region People's Hospital in Lhasa, the best medical facility in Xizang, where he trained local doctors to deal with common endocrine diseases.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
chinadailyhk.com | Palden Nyima
Teaching building at Wanquan Primary School enhances learning environmentOver the past three decades, with strong leadership from the central government and robust support from people across the nation and sister provinces and cities, the Xizang autonomous region has embarked on a new era of modernizing its education system. The transformation has been made possible through the unwavering commitment of individuals and groups who have dedicated themselves to supporting education in Xizang.
