Since 2015, hospital departments in relatively developed municipalities and provinces in China have paired up with their counterparts in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region to provide better medical services to residents on the plateau.
More than 30,000 cataract patients in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region have benefited from free surgeries funded by the Tibet Development Fund over the past 30 years.
The Tibet autonomous region reported eight locally confirmed COVID-19 cases and 264 asymptomatic carriers from 0 to 2 pm on Tuesday, health authorities said at a news briefing in the regional capital of Lhasa on Tuesday.
The Tibet autonomous region reported 77 (69+8) locally confirmed COVID-19 cases and 755 (523+232) asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 between Sunday and 2 pm Monday, health authorities said at a news briefing in Lhasa on Monday.
Flights from major airports in Hainan are returning to normal as the epidemic-stricken island and destination cities take effective measures to help stranded tourists return home as soon as possible, according to local authorities.
Before Huang Zimin arrived in Damshung county in the Tibet autonomous region in 2019 as an Aid-Tibet cadre from Beijing, he thought the biggest challenge would be the lower levels of oxygen on the plateau, but he soon realized the real challenge was the lack of safe drinking water.
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"The arrow shot is so straight that it hits the bull's-eye, the young people will have good luck, and sitting on the lawn of the archery field is as comfortable as sitting on soft silk," Dargye sang as he worked on his handmade bag.
