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• Production Techniques of Tibetan Tea in the Ancient Tea Horse Road

  Tibetan tea has a history of more than one thousand years. From the ancient times until now, Ya'an city of southwest China's Sichuan province is the production center of Tibetan tea.

• Thangka Painter in Southwest China's Tibet

  One can never imagine how these seemingly irrelevant elements come together until meeting 21-year-old Pema Wanza. Thangka, a Tibetan scroll-banner depicting various kinds of contents, can be seen in every monastery family shrine in Tibet autonomous region and has become a valuable kind of...

• Chengdu Media Arrive in Sister City of Chiang Mai

  A media group from Chengdu arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Sunday after first visiting Bangalore, India. The reporters interviewed officials at the Thai-Sichuan-Chongqing Chamber of Commerce branch in Chiang Mai, as well as from the Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce and Chiang Mai University.

• 130 mln RMB Allocated to Protect Intangible Cultural Heritages in Tibet

  Photo taken on Sept 26, 2014 shows monks performing "Qiangmu", a religious dancing of Tibetan ethnic group, at the Tashilumpo Monastery in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. Since 2005, China has allocated about 130 million yuan (about 20 million dollars) into the protection of...

• Development of Transportation in Tibet Over Past 5 Decades

  A total of 75,000 kilometers road have made the transportation in Tibet much easier than 50 years ago. The Qinghai-Tibet railway, running from Northwest China's Qinghai province to Lhasa, was opened in 2006.

• Tibetan Kite Exhibition Held in Lhasa

  Inheritor Pujon demonstrates the making process of kites at a Tibetan kite exhibition in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Aug 10, 2015. The kite exhibition was held in Tibet Public Culture Art Center on Monday.

• New Musical to Explore "Rich History" of Tibet

  Renowned Hollywood composer Klaus Badelt is seeking to internationalize Tibetan music by combining original folk melody with symphony.

• Chengdu to Host International Rowing Race

  Chengdu, capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, will play host to the 6th China International Universities Rowing Race from Aug 12 to 18.

• Conference Held in Chengdu to Boost China-Russia Cooperation

  Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Mikhail Babich, a Russian presidential representative, co-chaired a conference on cooperation between regions along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China and the Volga Federal District in Russia, on Friday in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan...

• 12 European Panda Fans Travel to China's Sichuan

  Tourists from Europe feed giant pandas at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Pandas in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, Aug 1, 2015. Twelve Europeans from six countries, fans of panda, will travel around Sichuan in the following month. They started the journey from Paris on...