Village in Tibet autonomous region uses local advantages to boost economic growth

Enriched with natural landscapes and ethnic cultures, and being located along the national highway G219, it is also a tourism destination, and the local villagers have been doing tourism-related businesses to make income.

Zheng Na, Party secretary of Sangthak village, said the more than 530,000 yuan (nearly $73,000) was invested by the local government into a hot-spring hotel project in 2018.

"The hot-spring hotel business has been contracted to a local villager. Now it has six spas, and he distributes a collective dividend of 40,000 yuan to the village every year," said Zheng.