As the sun reflects off the summits of distant mountains, Tenzin Dondrub takes a final sip of his butter tea from his wooden bowl and heads out to his office.
In a studio on the top floor of a three-story Tibetan-style house in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Phuntsok Tobgye and his apprentices are busy working on a thangka painting, measuring more than 10 meters in length and nearly three meters in width.
Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, began to gradually restart the economy and get people's lives back to normal in the city's counties and districts on Tuesday, under the premise of continued epidemic prevention and control measures, said a statement from the city's leading group for the fight against COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Gyirong and Zhangmu (Khasa) ports in the Tibet autonomous region have resumed customs clearances and adopted measures to help move stranded export cargo caught up in the most recent outbreak of COVID-19 in the region, according to Lhasa Customs.
Dradul, executive deputy mayor of Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet autonomous region, apologized to the public for the city not performing well in its work regarding the COVID-19 prevention and controls in a news briefing on Saturday.
Lhokha, Tibet autonomous region, announced it will gradually restore orderly production and life starting at midnight on Tuesday, on the basis of implementing region-specific, risk-based epidemic prevention and control measures.
The Tibet autonomous region has been making solid progress in its battle against the latest COVID-19 outbreak, with all the region's seven prefecture-level cities having or basically realizing zero COVID-19 status at the community level, authorities said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon.
In Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, all villages and communities in low-risk areas of six counties and districts resumed normal life and production starting at midnight on Monday.