Collaboration on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is part of the agenda of the Prime Minister’s fiveday visit to China scheduled from September 22 to 25.
March 28 marks the 64th anniversary of the democratic reform of the Xizang Autonomous Region in Southwest China.
In March 1959, the central government led the people in Xizang to launch a democratic reform, abolishing Xizang’s feudal serfdom under a theocracy. Xizang was then able to establish a new social system that liberated the people and made them the masters of the nation and society.
In 2009, the regional legislature announced March 28 as a day to commemorate the emancipation of about 1 million serfs.
The democratic reform, which started in 1959, gave personal freedom, right to serfs’ life, human dignity and value to the people, and unleashed immense and consistent productive forces for years to come. It is a historical event that all people in China should remember.
Recently, Global Times reporters talked with a serf-born man in Lhasa. His own story is a vivid illustration of how Xizang has undergone remarkable changes in democracy.