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by Xinhua writers Jin Yiqing, Liu Xinyong, Kelsang Namgyai LHASA, May 12 (Xinhua) Tenzin Norbu, 31, was aware of the effects of living with a disability at a young age. His aunt, who raised him in Lhasa, southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, lived with a leg disability. When I was with her, I saw all sorts of inconvenience in her daily life and work, and I found that material and financial aid alone couldn t solve all her problems, he said. Give people fish and you feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. After engaging in public welfare activities for several years, Tenzin Norbu said he found a deeper understanding of this popular saying.
2021-05-12 03:05:28 GMT2021-05-12 11:05:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Jin Yiqing, Liu Xinyong, Kelsang Namgyai
LHASA, May 12 (Xinhua) Tenzin Norbu, 31, was aware of the effects of living with a disability at a young age. His aunt, who raised him in Lhasa, southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, lived with a leg disability. When I was with her, I saw all sorts of inconvenience in her daily life and work, and I found that material and financial aid alone couldn t solve all her problems, he said. Give people fish and you feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. After engaging in public welfare activities for several years, Tenzin Norbu said he found a deeper understanding of this popular saying.
2021-05-08 08:35:57 GMT2021-05-08 16:35:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Liu Xinyong, Jin Yiqing, Li Jian
LHASA, May 8 (Xinhua) Southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region is moving steadily toward full enrollment in preschool education thanks to the implementation of the region s free education policies.
By the end of 2020, the region s gross enrollment rate for preschool education stood at 87.03 percent, up more than 52 percentage points from 2011, according to the regional education department.
The ratio was higher than the rate of 85.2 percent for the whole country.
At present, there are some 2,200 kindergartens in Tibet, over 10 times the figure for 2011, when the region expanded its free education policies for farmers and herders to cover preschool education.
2021-05-07 11:00:55 GMT2021-05-07 19:00:55(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Liu Xinyong, Dronla and Lyu Qiuping
LHASA, May 7 (Xinhua) 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.