This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2015-10-20 07:49
Item from Oct 20, 1995, in China Daily: A resident in the city of Xigaze, the Tibet autonomous region, uses solar energy to boil water. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet autonomous region.
The region is "now in its golden age", according to a white paper on its development, issued by the State Council last month.
The paper said regional GDP has expanded from 327 million yuan ($51.4 million) in 1965 to 92 billion yuan last year, and the disposable income of its urban residents reached 22,016 yuan per person last year. For herdsmen and farmers, the figure was 7,359 yuan per person.
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