Credit rating policy rolled out by Agricultural Bank of China has allowed farmers to expand their operations and increase annual incomes.
In 2014, Tibet's GDP reached 92.083 billion yuan, increasing by 10.8 percent year on year, 281 times that of the GDP 50 years earlier.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet autonomous region and the beginning of the modern age for people from the Tibetan ethnic group in China's western highlands.
The Tibet autonomous region showed overall good economic development in the first half of the year despite the deadly earthquake on April 25 that ravaged Nepal and the Tibet-Nepal border area, officials said.
Along the No 318 National Road to the west, on the north shore of the middle course of Yarlung Zangbo River, a small valley appears among the fragrant atmosphere. Here is Thonpa town, Nyemo County, the hometown of Tibetan incense.
On June 26, the "Loving Library" in the Central Primary School of Mangpu township of Lhatse county in Tibet autonomous region came into service.
What is the current situation of women in Tibet then? Let us look at the statistics from the Chinese side.
China has announced that it will extend the Qinghai-Tibet railway to the border areas with Nepal within the next five years. The railway will stretch out for another 540 kilometers from Xigaze to Jilong county which sits on the border of China and Nepal.
Villagers in the Tibet autonomous region are being raised out of poverty by an innovative cattle project. The 259 households in Gyadrong, Lhundrub county, jointly operate a milking center.
A new path for Indian pilgrims to sacred religious sites officially opened in Tibet's Dromo county on June 22.
Research has found that some Tibetan antelopes now choose to remain where they are for labor.
Tibet, which remained isolated for centuries, is now opening up to the outside world. Radical changes have taken place since the establishment of Tibet autonomous region.
