Gas heat project making a difference in Lhasa

Thanks to a heating project in Lhasa, in the Tibet autonomous region, more than 100,000 city households are now equipped with gas facilities, and the coverage of gas heat in Lhasa will exceed 98 percent by the end of the year, governmental authorities said on Friday.

Launched at the end of 2012, the project expanded rapidly. Many residents of Lhasa now find that their winter evenings no longer feel so cold or seem so long.

"The Lhasa heating project has made a historical transition from traditional heating methods to modern clean-energy heating," said Ma Hongjing, professor and senior engineer of the North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute.