People's Hospital in Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, has successfully conducted a minimally invasive surgery to repair a patient's broken upper spine.
A delegation of Chinese Tibetan scholars visited Latvia over the weekend for in-depth discussions with the country's parliamentarians, university faculty and students on Xizang's modern development, the inheritance and protection of its rich culture, and wider studies of the region. The visit was organized by China's State Council Information Office.
Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, which lies at an altitude of 3,650 meters above sea level, has long been known as the "city of sunlight" as it gets an average of more than 3,000 hours of sunshine a year.
Over the last week, thousands of residents of Lhasa have joined the work of painting the exterior walls of the Potala Palace, an annual routine "makeover" project for the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The glaciers of the Xizang autonomous region will receive better legal protection with the implementation of regulations that came into effect on Oct 1.
Chinese researchers have discovered two rare species of flying squirrels, Priapomys leonardi and Petaurista nobilis, in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, according to the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Thursday.
Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region has spent a total of 320 million yuan (about $45 million) in recent years on 56 projects for the protection of movable cultural heritage, according to the regional cultural heritage bureau on Friday.
