As the vast harvested fields are bathed in the plateau's morning light, the sound of black-necked cranes searching for food fills the air in Lhaze county in the Xizang autonomous region, also known as Tibet.
In the first 10 months of this year, the total value of foreign trade imports and exports in the Xizang autonomous region was 9.35 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), 1.5 times that of the same period last year and the highest in the country, Lhasa Customs announced on Friday.
Zhang Yun, a scholar who has engaged in Tibetology research for about four decades, said that he has witnessed the significant progress in human rights development in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region.
The peaceful liberation of Xizang in 1951 was a momentous and historic event for China and the democratic reform in the region in 1959 was a milestone in global abolitionist movement.
An art exhibition was held in Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous region on Wednesday to mark the official opening of the Xizang Art Museum, the first provincial-level art museum in the region.
Zheng Wanqi, a pediatrician from Northeast China's Liaoning province, knows too well the challenges of working on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world."
An official of Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region on Friday denounced the claim of so-called "forced vocational training" in the region, alleged by certain foreign institutions, as pure vilification.
