Describing his relationship with Chinese scientists as "like brothers", Lonnie Thompson, a member of the American Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has returned to the highest county in China 24 years after his last visit.
Around 12 young guests from ten countries, including the UK, India and Sri Lanka, are nearing the end of a four-day visit to the Xizang autonomous region.
A photo exhibition featuring Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region opened at the Union of Mongolian Artists in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, on Monday.
The dance is a Tibetan cultural heritage from the ancient Guge Kingdom that mixes speech, singing and dancing. It was inscribed into the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.
China's homegrown C919 jetliner, developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), completed a flight from Southwest China's Sichuan province to the neighboring Xizang autonomous region on Thursday, marking the aircraft's first landing in Xizang.
Assistance from ethnic affairs departments across the country to the Xizang and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions has yielded significant results in economic and social development, as well as in promoting ethnic unity and progress, the National Ethnic Affairs Commission said on Thursday.
Under the blazing sun, golden fields of highland barley swayed like waves in the wind as 39-year-old farmer Lhapa Tenzin drove his harvester through, gathering the ripe grain into piles.
