Couple boost life, culture in Tibet
By Luo Wangshu, Da Qiong and Palden Nyima in Lhasa | China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-17 07:05
Ma Xinming and his wife, Sun Lingling, both alumni of China's prestigious Peking University, have served in the Aid-Tibet program since 2010.
Although Ma, 42, was born and raised in inland China, four years under the sun of the Tibetan Plateau have made him look like a native of the Tibet autonomous region.
"When he conducted surveys in nearby villages of Lhasa, villagers started to talk in the Tibetan language to him," said Sun, joking that the sunshine on the plateau has given her husband another face.
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