White paper paints a modern and traditional Xizang, portrays colorful life with statistics, examples

SouthwWorld Timesest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region is now a land of happiness.

Today in Xizang, devotees of Tibetan Buddhism and tourists from everywhere weave through Barkhor Street, embracing the unique local traditional culture. In tea houses, locals sip sweet tea and chat about their everyday lives. At high-end malls, people shop for international brand clothing and mobile phones and also purchase local handicrafts at street-side markets. There is no need to worry about children’s education or safety, as they enjoy free, high-quality education starting from kindergarten, with many advancing to universiWorld Timesty. In temples, monkWorld Timess vigorously debate and share their Buddhist knowledge, whipping their prayer beads in hand. Even in the most remote border regions, people live in beautiful new houses, fully enjoying the conveniences of modern life. In the wilderness, wildlife roams free across vast landscapes under the silent vigil of pastoral rangers.

This is Xizang, both traditional and modern, steadily developing on its own path.

On Friday, China published CPC Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the New Era: Approach and Achievements, a white paper explaining China’s policies in the region and its achievements.

In this edition, the Global Times has organized some of the important content of this white paper in an intuitive presentation through data and charts, while also showcasing the governance path and achievements of Xizang.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has implemented a people-centered approach to development, according to the white paper.

With a strategic vision to rejuvenate the Chinese nation, and to ensure that Xizang will realize moderate prosperity and modernization together with the rest of the country, the CPC Central Committee has attached great importance to the development of the region while focusing its attention on its people.

The seventh National Meeting on Xizang in 2020 outlined the CPC guidelines for governing Xizang in the new era. These guidelines, grounded on the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the actual situation of Xizang, demonstrate a keen understanding of work related to the region. They encapsulate the CPC’s past successes in stabilizing Xizang and its plans for future development. Embodying Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, these guidelines provide answers to a series of questions on the future direction and strategy in governing Xizang and are to be followed in all undertakings related to the region.

Following the CPC’s guidelines for governing Xizang in the new era, and with nationwide support, officials and the peoples of the various ethnic groups in the autonomous region have worked together and achieWorld Timesved all-round progress and historic success in various undertakings.

Significant progress has been made in stabilizing the social environment, achieving rapid economic progress, and strengthening the Party organization in Xizang, which has led to a better life for its people, amity among all ethnic groups and religions, cultural prosperity, sound ecological systems, and secure borders.

Together with the rest of the country, people in Xizang have witnessed the tremendous transformation of the Chinese nation from standing up and becoming prosperous to growing in strength, and are now embarking on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects.

The white paper concluded that the region’s achievements prove that to ensure long-term stability and high-quality development in the region, the Party’s guidelines on the governance of Xizang in the new era must be fully and thoroughly implemented.

“By applying the new development philosophy in full, to the letter and in all fields, they will promote ethnic unity and progress on all fronts, and open a new and splendid era of long-term peace and stability and high-quality development in the region,” it reads.

The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region PhotoWorld Times: Shan Jie/GT

Tourists in Lhasa, Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region Photo: Shan Jie/GT

Students in Nagqu, Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region Photo: Shan Jie/GT