Tibet Travel News

Holland Royal Airlines (Abbr. KLM) will fly from Amsterdam to Chengdu
From May 28th this year, Holland Royal Airlines (Abbr. KLM) will fly from Amsterdam to Chengdu. Every week there are two flights back and forth.
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Shanghai strives for straight train to Lhasa
(2006-3-14)Shanghai Railway Bureau is striving for launching passenger train to Lhasa July 1 when Qinghai-Tibet Railway will launch its trial operation, sources from related department.Preparations including ticket price, schedule, and trainman selection are under tense proceeding. The straight Shanghai-Lhasa trip will cost about 52 hours by train.( - continue reading)

24 Chinese mountaineers conquer Mt. Everest
Beijing, May 23 (PTI): A record 24 Chinese mountaineers and scientists on Sunday conquered Mt Everest, kicking off a state-of-the-art effort to re-measure the world's highest peak and the most comprehensive scientific studies on the effect of global warming in the Himalayan region. The expedition, which spent 77-minutes at the peak, scaled the earth's highest peak and successfully performed measuring operations, the expedition headquarters announced. (full coverage)

China nears completion of controversial Tibet rail link (April 13, 2005)
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will complete a controversial railway link across the snow-covered Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Lhasa by the end of the year, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. More

China to make Tibet a tourist draw (Mar 10, 2005 )
China has launched a 15-year plan to turn Tibet into one of the world's leading tourist destinations. The Tibet Tourism Development Plan would vigorously promote the Chinese autonomous region, known as "the roof of the world" for its mountainous terrain, to boost its economy and start the region's "urbanisation", according to the Xinhua news agency. (Full article)

Changes transform childbirth in Tibet
(China Daily, Jan 19, 2005)During her first six years of working as the only obstetrician in the Pozhang Township Hospital in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Mima only delivered 20 babies among a childbearing population numbering 1,700. But in 2004 alone, says Mima, who began working in 1997 after four years at Nanjing Medical School, "I've delivered eight births, all safe." (detailed report)

Volunteers fulfilling their dreams in Tibet
LHASA, Jan. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Candles, shoulder poles and mice are engraved in the memories of three college volunteers who came to teach in a junior middle school in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region more than one year ago. (full story)

Tibet should stay with China: Dalai Lama
Bangalore, December 3, 2004 The Dalai Lama today said it was in the interest of Tibet to remain in China especially from the perspective of economic development. He reiterated that he was only seeking "genuine autonomy for his country and not independence". (full coverage)

Tibetan Buddhism festival
China Tibet Information Center, Nov. 5, 2004 The day on November 4th, (September 22nd in Tibetan calendar) is the Tibetan Buddhism festival named "Dissension Festival". On that day, the disciples went to small and large monasteries, such as Jokhang Monastery, Potala Palace to burn incense. They swayed Prayer wheels and did kowtows while praying for next year's crop harvest.

Foreign tourists enjoy unrestricted sightseeing in Tibet
(xinhua news, October 31, 2004) Overseas tourists have enjoyed unrestricted sightseeing in all the 70 counties of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Altogether 1.34 million overseas sightseers have visited Tibet from 1980 to 2003, with 51,000 in last year alone, according to the official statistics. "We welcome more foreigners to travel in China and Tibet, and no special forbidden zone would be imposed for them," said Wang, an official of the local tourism bureau. Overseas tourists must have Tibet travel permits issued by Chinese governments before they enter Tibet, according to the regulation made by Chinese central government in 1989.

Tibet reports marked progress in infrastructure construction
(Xinhua) 2004-10-24
Tibet invested heavily this year in building 52 of the 117 major infrastructure projects set by the Chinese government in June 2001; 16 had been completed by the end of September, according to the statistics from the regional development and reform committee. (Read more...)

Construction of Qinghai-Tibet Rail
People Daily Online, Oct. 14, 2004 - Workers lay railroad tracks near the Tongtianhe River at a construction site of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on Aug. 13, 2004. The railway, linking Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, has the highest altitude in the world.
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Tibet for mountaineering in 2005
China Tibet Information Center, Oct. 15, 2004 - Sources from Tibet Mountaineering Association, Tibet will be busy with meeting mountaineering expeditions abroad in 2005 because there will be a series of mountaineering activities. It is said that next spring, Sino-Japan mountaineering team will scale the 8848.13-meter Mount Everest for celebrating 30th anniversary of succeeding in conquering Mount Everest by Female. According to the association, Tibet will go on organizing Mount Everest Protecting Activity not only for picking garbage, but also for conquering Mount Everest. Besides, Tibet Mountaineering Expedition will step on the 8068 m Gasherbrums I next year and till then, Tibet Mountaineering Expedition will be conquered all the 14 mountains which are over 8000 meters. And there will also be a mountaineering activity for climbing Sangdainkangsang peak which lies in the middle of Nyainqentanglha Mountains, at the seal level of 6,590 meters.