Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is nestled in the Himalayas.
拉萨，西藏的首府，坐落在喜马拉雅山脉中。
The Potala Palace in
Lhasa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
拉萨的布达拉宫是联合国教科文组织的世界文化遗产。
Pilgrims from all over Tibet converge on Jokhang Temple in
Lhasa.
来自全西藏的朝圣者都会聚集在拉萨的大昭寺。
The stunning landscape around
Lhasa is dotted with monasteries and temples.
拉萨周围壮丽的风景中点缀着许多寺庙和修道院。
The climate in
Lhasa is characterized by low humidity and ample sunshine.
拉萨的气候特点是湿度低，阳光充足。
Travel to
Lhasa requires a permit due to its high altitude and remote location.
由于海拔高且地处偏远，前往拉萨需要许可证。
The famous Barkhor Street in
Lhasa is a popular spot for both tourists and locals.
拉萨著名的八廓街是游客和当地人都喜欢的地方。
Traditional Tibetan architecture is prominent in
Lhasa's old city.
传统的藏式建筑在拉萨老城区十分显眼。
The annual Shoton Festival in
Lhasa features opera performances and a grand display of yogurt.
拉萨每年的雪顿节有歌剧表演和盛大的酸奶展示。
Lhasa's rich cultural heritage is a testament to the enduring influence of Tibetan Buddhism.
拉萨丰富的文化遗产证明了藏传佛教的深远影响。
Unilever unit joins in rural revitalization with efforts in Tibet autonomous regionThe global ice cream brand Wall's is working with the China Environmental Protection Foundation to run a cultural and recreational program in communities in Doilungdeqen district of Lhasa, the Tibet autonomous region, to help contribute to the nation's rural revitalization drive.
联合利华旗下品牌和路雪与中国环境保护基金会合作，在西藏自治区拉萨市堆龙德庆区的社区开展文化和娱乐项目，助力国家乡村振兴战略。
The launch of a new novel about mountaineering and the spirit of Chinese entrepreneurship was held recently in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region.
近日，一本关于登山和中国企业家精神的新书在西藏自治区拉萨市发布。
Compared with the gas stations located in the plain region, the Tsonyi gas station sees greater waste of oil tanks due to the extreme weather, and the long distance of transportation also makes cost much higher compared with Lhasa, the Tibet autonomous region's capital.
与位于平原地区的加油站相比，Tsonyi加油站由于极端天气导致的油罐损耗更大，而且与西藏自治区首府拉萨的距离遥远，也使得运输成本相对更高。
However, it has always been adopting the oil price in Lhasa, as the purpose of the gas station has not been making money but rather serving the people, said Wu Chenhong, managing director of CNPC Tibet's Nyima subsidiary.
但中石油西藏日喀则分公司总经理吴晨红表示，由于加油站的目的不是赚钱，而是服务民众，因此拉萨的油价一直保持稳定。
Tibet Airlines plans to add 20 new domestic routes to tap the tourist market during the winter season, starting on Oct 25, including the opening of the airline's first direct flights between Lhasa, the region's capital and Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
Government in Lhasa, capital of Tibet autonomous region, on Tuesday signed a deal with Alibaba Cloud to promote the city's digital construction.
Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the construction of digital cities are driving markets across the world, and with joint efforts in these industries, Alibaba Cloud and Lhasa government plan to build a "digital Lhasa", the globe's highest located smart city, said Zhao Minmin, director of Tibet affairs, Alibaba Cloud.
Sichuan Airlines Flight 3U8633 was flying from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport of Chongqing municipality to Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, on Monday morning.
LHASA — China's securities regulator has approved the IPO application of a Tibetan securities firm, which will bring the number of listed companies to 18 in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
China Everbright Bank opened a branch in Tibet autonomous region on Wednesday, which will support the region's economic development with heavy financing over the next five years.
China Everbright Group and the bank's Lhasa branch signed strategic cooperation agreements with the regional and Lhasa municipal governments respectively.
A new air route linking Shanghai, Xi'an and Shigatse, the second largest city in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, has opened.
"Passengers can now fly directly to Shigatse without a transfer in Lhasa," said Ni Junnan, deputy Party chief of Shigatse.
A medicine company in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region went public Friday, bringing the region's number of listed companies to 15.
Registered in Lhasa, Tibet Financial Leasing was established as the first financial leasing company in Tibet autonomous region in 2015, with approval from the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
In 2016, Mengniu signed a cooperation agreement with Lhasa municipal government to build modern upland pasture and processing factories as part of its "go west" policy and to take advantage of the Tibet autonomous region's rich resources to suppy products to local as well as South Asian markets like Nepal and India.
- 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.
Its imports from and exports to Nepal, its largest trading partner, totaled approximately 2.77 billion yuan, up 77.2 percent year-on-year, according to the customs of Lhasa, the regional capital.
The completion of a key expressway linking Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous region, and Shigatse, a prefecture-level city, has boosted local transportation and transformed the livelihoods of residents.
Rinpung, located in the northeastern tip of Shigatse, borders Lhasa in the north and Shannan in the east.
- Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region is expected to receive 80 billion yuan ($11.26 billion) from the central government for the region's development in 2024, said Yan Jinhai, chairman of the regional government.
Anticipating significant business prospects on the horizon, locals in Poma Village in Tibet's capital city Lhasa have refurbished their houses into Tibetan-style homestays for tourists, resulting in substantial gains for the local community and simultaneously boosting the market for farm produce.
The volume of trade between Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region and Nepal increased 4.7 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2023, a local official said.
Lhasa, Tibet, is now included in the list of China's top 100 cities for nighttime economic prosperity.
The third echelon includes 60 cities, with tourist cities selected, such as Lhasa, Dali, Lijiang and Guilin.
According to the commerce bureau of Lhasa, the city has recognized the shopping centers of Wanda, Zangyoutancheng and Gongdelintianjie as the city's model zones for nighttime economy in 2022.
"As an international tourism city featuring plateau and ethnic characteristics, the development of Lhasa's nighttime economy will develop more possibilities, and the city's nighttime economy will see further growth. "
A summit forum of the 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference will be held in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, from July 4 to 7, the city government announced on Friday.
Themed "Data bridge spans the Himalayas", the forum will be hosted by Lhasa and co-hosted by its Gaoxin district.
Zhao Wei, deputy secretary-general of the city, said Lhasa will continue to focus on promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitization, comprehensively showcasing new achievements of the city's digital economy and digital applications, and enhancing the platform for win-win cooperation in the digital economy.
Last year, the digital economy output of Lhasa hit 5.56 billion yuan ($767 million), an increase of 2.1 percent year-on-year.
The Economy and Information Technology Department of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region said a batch of new regulations have come into force since Wednesday to promote the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The total value of foreign trade in the Tibet autonomous region reached 4.6 billion yuan ($680 million) last year, an increase of 14.6 percent year-on-year, according to Lhasa Customs.
- The gross domestic product (GDP) of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region is estimated at 216.5 billion yuan ($32.2 billion) in 2022, up about 3 percent from the previous year, said Yan Jinhai, chairman of the regional government.
Located in the Himalayas, the port is 800 kilometers from the regional capital, Lhasa, and about 130 km from the Nepali capital, Kathmandu.
Imports were valued at 262 million yuan, a decrease of 84 percent year-on-year, according to Lhasa Customs.
Drolma Yangzom, a resident of the regional capital Lhasa, said she usually prefers online shopping as it is so convenient.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has seen the per capita consumption expenditure of its residents surging over the past 10 years thanks to their rising income, authorities said Tuesday.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has achieved robust economic growth and stability over the past decade, according to a press briefing in the regional capital Lhasa on Tuesday.
- On the vast plateau, one express delivery truck after another traveled through the Kunlun Mountains Pass at an altitude of more than 4,700 meters, heading to Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
Customs data from the regional capital, Lhasa, shows that during this period total exports exceeded 1 billion yuan, with a trade surplus of over 1 billion yuan.
- Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region saw its foreign trade surge 10 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, according to new data from local customs.
Tibet's imports and exports totaled nearly 1.14 billion yuan ($174 million) in the period, Lhasa Customs said in a statement.
Its respective trade values with members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and countries along the Belt and Road hit 156 million yuan and 610 million yuan, said Yuan Jintao, an official from Lhasa Customs.
The export of whole vehicles from China to Nepal via the ports in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has emerged as a new growth engine for Sino-Nepalese trade, according to customs in Lhasa, the regional capital.
In 2021, Lhasa customs supervised and examined 806 automobiles made in China for exports with a trade value of 145 million yuan ($22.8 million), up 760 percent year-on-year.
According to Lhasa customs, the foreign trade between Tibet autonomous region and Nepal reached 1.8 billion yuan in 2021, up 69.4 percent year-on-year.
Taking into account the local situation of epidemic prevention and control, Lhasa customs set up a special service window for automobile export and adopted a series of measures to streamline customs clearance.
Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet autonomous region saw steady economic growth in 2021, with GDP reaching more than 74 billion yuan ($11 billion) — an increase of about 6.7 percent year-on-year, a city official said at a news conference on Monday.
Haikou tops the 168 key Chinese cities in terms of the air quality last year, followed by Lhasa, Huangshan, Zhoushan and Fuzhou, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Among the 36 core cities, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Jinan, Hefei, Fuzhou, Harbin, Nanchang, Nanning, Haikou, Hohhot, and Lhasa have climbed the ranking, in which Hefei has seen the largest increase from 23rd in 2019 to 19th in 2020.
- The per capita disposable income for residents in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region expanded 14.7 percent year-on-year to 24,950 yuan ($3,936) in 2021, leading the country in income growth.
- The gross domestic product (GDP) of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region grew 6.7 percent year-on-year in 2021.
With infrastructure upgrades, a highway between the region's capital, Lhasa, and the city of Nagchu in the north was opened.
The Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway started up last year, linking Lhasa with Nyingchi and Lhokha and bringing the Fuxing bullet train series to the plateau region for the first time.
- The gross domestic product of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region grew about 7 percent in 2021, said Yan Jinhai, acting chairman of the regional government.
- The foreign trade of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region surged 130 percent year-on-year in the first 10 months of 2021, according to new data from local customs.
Tibet's imports and exports totaled about 3.34 billion yuan ($523 million) in the period, Lhasa customs said in a statement.
- The foreign trade of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region surged 124.1 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2021, led by booming trade by private companies, according to the local customs.
The region's imports and exports totaled 2.61 billion yuan (about $409 million) in the period, Lhasa customs said in a statement.
The foreign trade of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region surged 140 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2021, as the region's economy continued to improve and global trade demands picked up, local customs data showed Wednesday.
The imports and exports of the region totaled 1.98 billion yuan ($304 million) in the first six months, the Lhasa customs said in a statement.
Yuan Jintao, an official with the Lhasa customs, said production and consumption demand in Tibet was strong in the January-June period thanks to effective epidemic control, while global trade demand also picked up with world economic recovery.
As the first global digital economy conference to be held in Beijing, all its venues, including one main venue and three branches, will not only be located in Beijing's Chaoyang district but will also expand to Haidian and Daxing districts, as well as Lhasa in the Tibet autonomous region, Wang said.
Wang Qiang, vice-mayor of Lhasa, said the city will hold high-level forums, make professional recommendations and conduct field trips to show Lhasa's digital economy development and the construction achievements represented by the Qinghai-Tibet green data warehouse.
Parallel sessions will be held at the branch venue in Lhasa, and the city will endeavor to accelerate the construction of 5G pilot parks in its high-tech district, Wang Qiang said.
More than one-third of the investment-over 590 billion yuan-was allocated to major infrastructure projects, including the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Lhasa Gonggar Airport, which have effectively promoted the economic and social development of the region, according to Wu Yingjie, the region's Party secretary.
The section linking Nyingchi and Lhasa is expected to open before July.
- Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region saw robust growth in retail sales of consumer goods in the first two months of 2021, according to local authorities.
The Tibet autonomous region's GDP exceeded 190 billion yuan ($29 billion) in 2020, up 7.8 percent year-on-year in comparable prices, according to information provided at the region's annual economic conference held recently in Lhasa, the region's capital.
- The gross domestic product of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region grew 7.8 percent in 2020, said Qizhala, chairman of the regional government.
LHASA — In the past, electricity from Sichuan and Qinghai provinces was transmitted to Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region during power shortages in winter.
The company started a heating device business via the region's abundant solar energy resources, as its capital city, Lhasa, enjoys more than 3,000 hours of sunshine annually.
With a length of 295 kilometer and with two lanes in each direction, the expressway runs between Nagchu in northern Tibet and Doilungdechen county in Lhasa.
Transportation official Tsering Wangmo noted that with the opening of the expressway, travel time between Lhasa and Nagchu was reduced from more than 6 hours to just 3 hours.
"Since its completion, the Lhasa-Nagchu Expressway has provided great travel convenience for people who live along the line, and it has contributed to the three-hour economic circle of Lhasa.
"The department said that during the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), the region's traffic and transportation sectors will continue to accelerate the construction of other key highway projects in the region, including one between Lhasa and Shigatse.
"What impressed me the most was the magnificent Potala Palace and strong religious culture in Lhasa.
"It is harder to get tickets to some hot tourism spots, such as the Potala Palace, as the number of tourists has been increasing significantly recently," said Chodar, a tour guide in Lhasa.
- Deals on 60 projects with a total value of over 53 billion yuan ($7.44 billion) were signed on Saturday at a culture and tourism expo in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
Most link cities with large numbers of commuters such as Beijing and Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong province, Chengdu in Sichuan province and Chongqing, and Lhasa and Nyingchi in the Tibet autonomous region.
- The total output value of Tibetan medicine production enterprises in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region reached 2.52 billion yuan ($365.9 million) in 2022, about twice that of 2012, according to a conference on Tibetan medicine development held on Wednesday.
The postal service sector in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region saw steady growth in parcels handled in January 2023, data showed.
- The courier sector in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region saw strong growth in both parcels handled and business revenues in the first nine months of 2021, according to local authorities.
据当地政府部门透露，2021年前三季度，中国西南部西藏自治区的快递行业在快件处理量和业务收入方面均实现了强劲增长。
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region witnessed a strong recovery in tourism in the first half of this year, according to local authorities.
据当地官方消息，今年上半年，中国西南部的西藏自治区旅游业强劲复苏。
Sanya, Wuxi and Lhasa are among tourists' favored domestic destinations.
三亚、无锡和拉萨是国内游客最喜欢的旅游目的地之一。
As the epidemic gets under control and bans were lifted on cross-province tourism that stimulated travelers flowing during the summer vacation, three airports in Sanya, Lijiang and Lhasa realized positive growth in passenger throughput in August.
随着疫情得到控制，以及省级旅游禁令的解除，进一步刺激了暑期游客流动，在8月份三亚、丽江和拉萨的三个机场实现了旅客吞吐量的正增长。
The passenger throughput in Sanya Phoenix International Airport, Lijiang Sanyi International Airport, Lhasa Kongga International Airport increased 4.1 percent to 1.62 million, 3.4 percent to 752,500, and 8 percent to 496,600, respectively.
三亚凤凰国际机场、丽江三义国际机场和拉萨贡嘎国际机场的旅客吞吐量分别增长4.1%至162万、3.4%至75.25万和8%至49.66万。
- Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region on Tuesday officially began piloting six healthcare and green tourism bases in its capital city of Lhasa.
周二，中国西南部的西藏自治区在其首府拉萨正式启动了六个健康保健与绿色旅游基地的试点项目。
Tadong village, deemed as "the most beautiful village in Lhasa" and famous for its hot springs, is one of the six bases.
“Tadong village，被誉为拉萨最美的村庄，并以其温泉而闻名，是六个基地之一。”
Feng is marketing director of an online tourism retailer based in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.
Lhasa-based Tibet Airlines will start a direct flight service between Lhasa and Hong Kong on Nov 1, the first between the two cities, according to Tibet Business Daily.
Flights with high passenger load factors mainly departed from popular tourism destinations such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Sanya, Lijiang, Lhasa and Guilin, said the CAAC.
On May 14 last year, Liu was the captain of an airliner heading from Chongqing to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.
Tibet is enriched with rivers and lakes, and places in Shigatse as well as the cities of Lhasa and Lhokha typically feature traditional farming valleys.
Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, received more than 1.07 million tourists over the first quarter of the year, an increase of 17 percent year-on-year, as revealedxa0Tuesday by the city's tourism development bureau.
The 1,700-km Sichuan-Tibet railway is planned to run from Chengdu, Sichuan province, through Ya'an and Kangding, and then enter the Tibet autonomous region via Qamdo and Nyingchi before finally arriving in Lhasa.
While construction began in 2014 on two easier parts of the line－between Lhasa and Nyingchi, and between Chengdu and Ya'an－the Nyingchi-Ya'an section goes through a complicated area fraught with avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, heat, karst caves and underground streams.
Once the Sichuan-Tibet railway is completed, it will only take 13 hours to travel to Lhasa from Chengdu, Chongqing or Xi'an.
By January, the region had built five delivery centers in local counties and more than 100 e-commerce service stations in villages, according to a Lhasa Evening News report.
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