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• Chengdu-Chongqing High Speed Rail to Start Operation by Year

  The 308km railway will reduce travel time between the two cities from around two hours to about one and a half hour during its initial operational stage. On Wednesday, engineers began to test the new line, which stretches 185 km across Sichuan Province and runs 123 km through Chongqing City. A...

• Tibetan Clergy Studying Their Way to Prestige

  "An incarnated lama normally learn quickly, but that doesn't mean they need not study", said Jampa Chide, a scripture lecturer at the High-Level Tibetan Buddhism College of China in Beijing.

• Leshan Jiajiang Dongfengyan Enlisted as World Irrigation Project Heritage

  On September 16th, on the 65th International Executive Council of International Commission on 22nd Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) Congress held in Gwangju, Korea, Leshan Jiajiang Dongfengyan Irrigation Project was enlisted on the first batch of world irrigation engineering project heritage list,...

• 2nd Sino-Africa Cultural Heritage Preservation Forum Was Held in Chengdu

  On September 13th, 2nd Sino-Africa Cultural Heritage Preservation Forum was held in Chengdu. This forum was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sichuan Provincial People's Government, and China National Commission for UNESCO.

• Bubble Bursts for Tibetan Mastiffs

  The price for these pure-bred dogs once hit nearly $800,000, but now the bottom has fallen out of the market. Peng Qiwei, who has been raising Tibetan mastiffs for more than 20 years, decided to close his kennel park to the public in Beijing this year.

• Blockbusting Demand for Traditionally-printed Tibetan Sutras

  Lhasa resident Chodron has been on the waiting list for a woodblock-print sutra from her local monastery for a year, and she will need to wait another two years before she receives the beautiful piece of scripture.

• Life of a Living Buddha in Tibet

  As a Living Buddha, Shabdrung Rinpoche is like any other man of 18: he studies, debates, loves music, plays basketball, microblogs, and learns English.

• Tharlo Shows Tradition & Modernity of Tibetan Ethnicity at Venice Int'l Film Festival

  The vast land of the Tibetan-inhabited region of Qinghai and the disorientation of its young generation are the highlights of Chinese film Tharlo, presented here at the ongoing Venice International Film Festival on Friday.

• Lhasa Prepares for 50th Anniversary of Tibet Autonomous Region

  National flags are seen on buildings in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Sept 4, 2015.China will hold celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Tibet autonomous region.

• Preserving Tibetan Tradition, One Loaf at a Time

  37-year-old man in Lhasa has found success by using Tibetan barley to produce a new and unique kind of bread. His story is an example of traditional culture being reshaped to survive in the modern world.