Travel News

• Slow Food Intl Festival Celebrates Traditional Lifestyles in Chengdu

  Chengdu will host the seventh Slow Food International Congress Meeting this September, expecting to draw the public's attention to the sustainable food industry and to eating healthily.

• 56-meter Long Thangka Debuts at Boao Forum for Asia

  A 56-meter long thangka featuring the 10th Panchen Lama Choskyi Gyaltsen was exhibited at the 2017 Boao Forum for Asia on the afternoon of March 24.

• Czech National Museum Holds Exhibition on History, Culture of Tibet

  Prague's Naprstek Museum, which is a part of the Czech National Museum, started on Monday an exhibition on the history and culture of west China's Tibet region, presenting items from the museum's collections that never went on display before.

• Tibetan Opera Team at Tsomey Village

  March 2, 2017 is the fourth day of the Tibetan New Year. At noon, Tsomey Village Committee put up the Opera stage and villagers got together waiting to see Tibetan Opera in the yard.

• Village in Tibet Holds Spring Ploughing Ceremony

  March 16 marks the start of the spring ploughing day for many places in Tibet. Villagers in Mar village, Mar township, Doilung Dechen, Lhasa, all put on their festival costumes to celebrate this traditional day.

• Overseas Scholars Come to China So They Can Research Tibet

  More overseas scholars now seek to come to China to study Tibetan history and culture, a senior researcher said on Thursday.

• New Plant Species Discovered in Tibet

  Chinese scientists have found a new plant species belonging to the genus Sorbus in Zayu county, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, and their findings have been published by the Nordic Journal of Botany.

• New Lease of Life in Chengdu for Traditional Spring Custom

  WITH TOMB SWEEPING day approaching, Changsong Temple Public Cemetery in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, is allowing people to pay their respects to their ancestors using the social media app WeChat.

• Work Permit as "Green Cards" Change to Benefit Foreigners in Tibet

  Konchok Dargyi, The Nepalese citizen, who has been a resident of Lhasa, the regional capital, since he was born, was among 118 foreign residents who received a "green card" from the city authorities on Wednesday.

• Nyingchi Peach Blossom Festival to Open on March 25

  A peach blossom tourism and culture festival is to be held on March 25 during the blossom season from March 15 through April 30 in Nyingchi, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.