Posts Tagged ‘tibet’

First rail laid in Tibet

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Two rails 25 feet long, is the first in Tibet, were placed at station railway Amdo at 11:30 on Tuesday, at the foot of the Tanggula Mountains in the district of Amdo.
Vice Chinese Premier Huang Ju sent a message expressing her congratulations on behalf of the Chinese central authorities,
Construction of Qinghai-Tibet with a length of [...]

Rails will be laid in Tibet

January 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Tibet Autonomous Region will soon say goodbye to his long history of isolation rail. According to the monitoring center of the Qinghai-Tibet Lhasa, the departments of Construction announced that the first track in the history of Tibet would be placed at June 22 District of Amdo.
The Golmud-Lhasa section of Qinghai-Tibet under construction is the [...]

The Tibetan population has doubled in nearly 40 years

January 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Tibetan population in Tibet Autonomous Region, south-west China has risen from 1.2 million to 2.5 million in the space of forty years, according to official statistics recently published.
The Tibetan population in this region has increased in a stable manner since its peaceful liberation in 1951. Tibetans make up over 90% of the total population [...]

Tibet essential liquidation of illiteracy among youth and adults by 2007

January 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Mr. Song Heping, director of the Department of Education of the Tibet Autonomous Region, said recently that by 2007 illiteracy among youth and adults in Tibet has essentially disappeared and a system of compulsory education of nine years will be established.
Currently, there are about 450 000 young and adult illiterates in the Tibet Autonomous Region. [...]

Tibet is an important gene bank in the world

January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Tibet Autonomous Region (west China) is one of the areas of biodiversity the most typical and important gene bank of flora and fauna in the world, according to a government report on the environment of Tibet.
Tibet are 9 600 plant species including 6 400 plants of high altitude (5 700 vascular plants and 700 [...]

China: more than 70% of villages in Tibet-related road

January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Over 70% of villages and over 90% of towns in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, are connected to the road network, regional authorities said. Tibet now has 41 302 km of roads, the first road that connects to the Sichuan Province was built 50 years ago. Among its 683 towns and 5 956 [...]

Tibet’s GDP increased by 28 to 40 years

January 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
gross domestic product (GDP) per capita rose from 241 yuan (around $ 30) in 1965 to 6 874 yuan (840 dollars) in 2003, multiplied by 28.5, according to figures from the Bureau of Statistics Tibet Autonomous Region.
The GDP of Tibet has increased from 327 million yuan in 1965 to 18 459 billion yuan in 2003. [...]

The life expectancy of Tibetans has doubled during the past 45 years

January 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The life expectancy of Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (west) almost doubled during the past 45 years, from 35.5 years in 1959 to 67 today, it was learned from the regional office Statistics.
According the same source, the population of Tibet has increased from 1.14 million in 1951 to 2.7 million people currently 92% are [...]

China: major investments for the development of compulsory education in Tibet

December 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
The Chinese government will earmark 650 million yuan (78.31 million U.S. dollars), as a special fund, to accelerate the development of compulsory education in the Tibet Autonomous Region, it was learned from the regional department of education.
This amount will be used primarily in improving the infrastructure of primary and secondary schools, especially boarding schools in [...]

China published the White Paper on “Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet”

December 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
The White Paper on “Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet” which was published Sunday in Beijing, reported the political, economic and cultural and social progress since the implementation of regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet is for forty years, and this would enable the international community’s knowledge of Chinese policies on national affairs and the authentic look [...]