CGTN published this video item, entitled “My Tibet Story: My first visit to Lhasa” – below is their description.
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In 2006, Spanish-Argentinian award-winning travel photographer Angel Lopez-Soto was a privileged witness of the inauguration of the Beijing-Lhasa railway. One month after the official inauguration, he was in the group of foreign journalists and photographers invited to travel from Beijing to Lhasa in a special journey organized by the British company GW Travel.
During five days and through 1,956 km, he documented the biggest challenge in recent Chinese engineering from inside the train, a luxury convoy equipped with an oxygen system like the one used in airplanes.
His biggest impression of the trip was the contrasts he was able to witness in Tibet: the harsh, yet beautiful frozen landscapes; people who live isolated from the world and yet are warm and welcoming.
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In This Story: Tibet
Tibet is a region in East Asia covering much of the Tibetan Plateau spanning about 2,500,000 km2. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people.
Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft). Located in the Himalayas, the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth’s highest mountain, rising 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft) above sea level.
The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century. At its height in the 9th century, the Tibetan Empire extended far beyond the Tibetan Plateau, from Central Asian’s Tarim Basin and the Pamirs in the west to Yunnan and Bengal in the southeast.
The region declared its independence in 1913 and maintained its autonomy until 1951. Today, China governs western and central Tibet as the Tibet Autonomous Region while the eastern areas are now mostly ethnic autonomous prefectures within Sichuan, Qinghai and other neighbouring provinces.
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