Tibet standing firm on conservation

Tibet will not sacrifice ecological conservation for development despite the region setting its economic growth target at 11 percent this year, one of the highest among all provincial regions in China, a senior local official said on Friday.

"We know how important Tibet's ecological conservation is to China and the world," said Lobsang Jamcan, director of the Tibet Regional People's Congress Standing Committee, the local legislature.

"Tibet has established ecological red lines to guard against overdevelopment and no one can cross them," he said at a panel discussion during the ongoing session of the national legislature in Beijing.