The first session of the 12th Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Lhasa, capital city of the autonomous region, on Jan 12.
The number of serious violent crimes in the Tibet autonomous region has dropped sharply in the last five years, the regional People's Procuratorate said on Saturday.
A series of wall maps of manthang or Tibetan medicinal thangka paintings created by Tibetan artists between the 17th and the 20th centuries has been successfully inscribed in the fifth Chinese archival document heritage list, China Archives News reported.
The Tibet autonomous region expects to continue to improve people's quality of life in 2023, said Yan Jinhai, chairman of the regional government, on Friday.
Rural residents of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region saw their livelihoods improve in 2022, with their per capita disposable income maintaining double-digit growth for a 20th consecutive year, according to the first session of the 12th People's Congress of Tibet held on Friday.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region is estimated at 216.5 billion yuan ($32.2 billion) in 2022, up about 3 percent from the previous year, said Yan Jinhai, chairman of the regional government.
