With distinctive plateau landscapes and constantly improving infrastructure, the tourism industry in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is thriving and has brought tangible benefits to farmers and herders.
Despite the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of tourists traveling to Tibet surged in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period of 2019, with tourists arriving by train up 20 percent and those arriving by air up 28 percent, regional data shows.
Some 4,700 meters above sea level, Tonglong Village in Nyima Township is only about 30 km from the city of Nagqu. The village has a cooperative that boasts one of the highest thermal springs on the planet, now a much-visited hot spring resort.