LHASA, March 2 -- GDP in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region grew by 9.1 percent in 2018, down from the previous estimate of 10 percent but still among the nation's fastest.
An engineer checks big data automatic monitoring equipment at a weather station in the experimental base of a pilot planting project. Photo by Liu Dongjun from Xinhua News Agency "When I first went to Lhasa and saw trees there over 20 years ago, I wondered how nice it would be if there were also trees in my hometown," said Samten Dargye, a 48-year-old herdsman from Nagqu City in northern Tibet.
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 31, 2019 shows a photovoltaic power plant in Shuanghu County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
(Photo/China Railway) Tenzin Dolker is a delivery woman who works along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Nagqu section, north of Lhasa, the capital city of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Every day, Dolker and her colleagues cook food and then carry it from their local service center to Nagqu train station, where train drivers and maintenance workers will take a break to enjoy a meal.
