Approaching Losar, the Tibetan New Year, Tsetan Wangmo eagerly anticipates the festivities in Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region. This year's celebrations hold a special significance as both Losar and the Chinese Spring Festival fall on the same day, Feb 10.
Airports in the Xizang autonomous region received approximately 6.89 million visits in 2023, a year-on-year increase of almost 106 percent, according to data released by the Xizang branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
As sunshine graces the foot of the snow-covered mountains surrounding Kamba county in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, villagers from a local sheep breeding cooperative crack their herding whips to guide thousands of sheep out of their pen.
Lhorong county, with an average elevation of about 3,700 meters, was once an important stop along the ancient Tea Horse Road and a significant channel for Tibetan-Han exchanges.
Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region saw its foreign trade in goods grow 138.3 percent year-on-year to nearly 10.98 billion yuan (about $1.54 billion) in 2023, local authorities said on Friday.
The high-quality development of trade union work in the Xizang autonomous region will receive better legal protection, as the regional legislative body recently announced the Xizang Autonomous Region's Implementation Measures of the Trade Union Law of the People's Republic of China starting on Feb 1.
The vast land of Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region celebrated the opening of its first ski resort this snow season, with the resort established at an elevation of 4,500 meters.
