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Tibet Association for Science and Technology organized science popularization activities for temples
2014-Oct-30 Thu
To improve people's scientific and cultural quality, cooperated with Lhoka and Shigatse's scientific, hygienic, fire-control units, Tibet Association for Science and Technology has organized science popularization activities for Samding Monastery and Sakya Monastery recently.
In Samding Monastery, volunteers distributed popular science handbooks including goat farming methods, vegetable planting, disease control and prevention of heavy livestock to monks and the masses. Experts from Tibetan Medicine Institute gave health care knowledge lectures and charity clinics. They introduced precautionary measures for common diseases and distributed drugs.
In Sakya Monastery, science popularization station was set up and was equipped with computer, printer, magazine rack, carrel and popular science books. With the above platform, the staff propagandized knowledge such as energy conservation and emission reduction, environment protection, health care and fire safety.
At present, there are 46300 monks and nuns in Tibet. The science popularization activities aim to correctly guide religious clergy's interests and promote the integration of Tibetan Buddhism culture and modern science and culture.
Tibetan writer finishes novel on ethnic unity
Tibetan writer Zhang Zuwen's latest work "The Riverside of Lhasa" was published by the Beijing-based Writers Publishing House this month.
The novel was Zhang's second book following "Lhasa, How Have You Been?" Both novels depict the lives of Tibetans and people from other ethnic groups.
"The Riverside of Lhasa" tells the story of a woman and her mother managing an inn on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau around the beginning of the 21st century, just before the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
"The novel is an ode to ethnic unity and expresses a deep love for life and high expectations for a bright future," read a comment on "China Tibet Online."
"I think a good work should be good for everyone who reads it," Zhang said.
China invests 30 bln yuan on Tibet water infrastructure
2014-Sep-1 Mon
China invested a total of 30 billion yuan (4.87 billion U.S. dollars) on water infrastructure projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region in the last two decades, data from the Ministry of Water Resources showed on Saturday.
More than 1,000 projects have been organized by the ministry since China initiated a program to aid the region about 20 years ago.
The facilities provided safe drinking water for 2.39 million people, and the works also brought electricity to about 360,000 herdsmen, said the ministry.
The area of farmland under irrigation in Tibet is over 3 million mu, or 200,000 hectares.
Tibet digitalizes relics archive
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, commonly known as the "Roof of the World", boasts many World Heritage Sites, including the Potala Palace, Norbulingka Palace and the Jokhang Temple Monastery. For decades, an archiving project for the relics there has been ongoing. Starting this year, the researchers have a new mission: to turn old paperwork into digital files.
According to the local heritage bureau, the current work focuses on filing movable art and historical pieces, including paintings, calligraphies, Buddhist scriptures and other journals. All items, many of which were not previously archived, will be registered under a new internet-based filing system.
China has conducted two surveys of cultural relic sites in the Tibet Autonomous Region in 1959 and 1984, and the current archiving project was launched in 1999. In the past 15 years, total investment in the project from the central government reached three billion yuan.
