Travel News

• Institute of Tibetan Medicine Celebrates 100th Anniversary

  The Institute of Tibetan Medicine and Astrology in the Tibet autonomous region is this year celebrating its 100th anniversary since it founding, it said at a news conference on Thursday.

• The Tibetan Song and Dance Play Realizing Dreams to Tour

  Realizing Dream, an original Tibetan ethnic song and dance play will go on a tour performance to Beijing on the 3rd of August.

• Tibet Holds High Altitude Youth Mountaineering Summer Camp

  A group of 6 to 13 year old children took turns to do some rock climbing at the Tibet Mountaineering School. They enjoyed the experience of being “Spiderman” on the morning of the 16th of July.

• Ongkor Festival Celebrated in July in Tibet

  Villagers of the Tibetan ethnic group attend the Ongkor Festival celebration in Qiongjie county, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, July 16, 2016. The Ongkor Festival, or Bumper Harvest Festival, is celebrated annually by local farmers praying for good harvests of their crops.

• China's Tibet Enters Peak Tourist Season

  XIGAZE, June 19, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit Tashihunpo Monastery, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lamas, in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 18, 2016. Tibet has entered its peak tourist season.

• Tibet-themed Art Exhibition Opens in Nanxiang, Shanghai

  An art exhibition on Tibet-themed calligraphy, painting and photography was launched in the Nanxiang Cultural and Sports Center on June 20, in celebration of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, local media reported.

• Regional Jet Airliner Makes Maiden Flight Chengdu to Shanghai

  The ARJ21-700, China's first home grown regional jet airliner designed and manufactured by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, made its maiden flight on Tuesday from Chengdu, Sichuan province to Shanghai, in a flight operated by Chengdu Airlines.

• New Chengdu Airport on Course for 2020

  Chengdu will have its second international airport in operation by 2020 to become the third city in China to have two airports for commercial flights, after Beijing and Shanghai, if work proceeds on schedule.

• A Tale of Three Qiang Ethnic Villages in West China's Sichuan

  The rocky mountain area in the east of the Aba Tibet and Qiang autonomous prefecture, in West China's Sichuan province, which is located between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Sichuan Basin, has been a crossroads for trade and civilization for about 3,000 years.

• Landmark for the Gyalrong Tibetans

  Serku Tibetan village is known as the first guard post of the Gyalrong Tibetans, who live along the eastern of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.