Penba, a Tibetan man from the Dranang county of the Xizang autonomous region, has been planting trees in the desertification area in his hometown over the last three decades.
A Tibetan herder in the Xizang autonomous region has relocated three times in the past four decades in search of a suitable place that can provide a better livelihood for him and his family.
It was a simple matter of economics. Herdsman Tseten Dorge comes from a remote village in Damshung county, Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, and it was financially impossible, decades ago, for him to send all four children to school.
Sequ Zhoima, a 15-year-old from the Xizang autonomous region, regards her classmates, who hail from all corners of the grassland where she was born and raised, as her second "family."
Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region has built 4.3 million mu (about 286,667 hectares) of high-standard farmland, accounting for about 65 percent of its total arable land, said the regional Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Friday.
