In the early summer, drivers on a stretch of National Highway 109 in the Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Northwest China's Qinghai province often encounter a unique spectacle: herds of Tibetan antelopes crossing the busy road.
The Sixth China Xizang Trans-Himalaya International Cycling Race will be held from Aug 6 to 10 across the four cities of Lhasa, Nyingchi, Lhokha and Shigatse in Xizang autonomous region.
The nine newly accredited cities are Chongming in Shanghai, Dali in Yunnan province, Fuzhou in Fujian province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Jiujiang in Jiangxi province, Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region, Suzhou in Jiangsu province, Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, and Yueyang in Hunan province.
Cering Qoizha is excited at the prospect of his company's expansion: a new workshop, which will process 5,000 yaks each year, is set to open in September and will be a major milestone in the company's growth.
With just a few clicks, an engineer switched the live feed on a big screen from a view of about a dozen black-necked cranes foraging in alpine meadows in Nagqu in the Xizang autonomous region, to a glimpse of the majestic, glistening glaciers of Mount Kulha Dardong on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
In a windswept stretch of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a community-led greening effort is transforming barren desert into productive pasture, providing herders with a more stable source of income.
More than a millennium ago, salt traders based in Tsakha township, Ngari prefecture of Xizang autonomous region, would extract natural salt from local salt lakes and transport it by loading it onto yaks and sheep.
