Prosperity on the plateau

Despite challenges, with the support of the central authorities and other regions, Tibetans share fruits of progress

After its peaceful liberation from millennia-long feudal serfdom, huge vitality has been released in the Tibet autonomous region since democratic reforms were launched in 1959. "Leap-forward" progress has been made, especially over the last three decades.

Under the Settlement Project implemented by the central government and the autonomous region's local government, many herding households in Baqen, in northern Tibet's Nagqu prefecture, now own a spacious furnished cottage equipped with a telephone, television and modern home appliances. The construction of barns, storage sheds and solar-powered wells for drinking water have also better preserved the region's grassland ecosystem, lowered the livestock mortality rate and increased the survival rate of infant livestock.