Top female rock climber wins gold, again and again

Edit China Daily 29 Dec 2015
One of China's most accomplished athletes, a 26-year-old Tibetan woman with dozens of gold medals, is poised to elevate the nation's standing in a growing global sport. rock climbing ... Born into a farming family in Tibet's eastern Nyingchi prefecture, Rinchen's selection as a member of Tibet's first rock climbing team changed her life ... The number of gold medals she has won total almost 50, including 10 golds she tallied in 2014....

‘China’s Jane Goodall’ bids farewell to the plateau (The Central People's Government of the People's ...

Edit Public Technologies 28 Aug 2015
We thought they indicated human activity," Xu recalled, during a recent visit to the Tibetan Plateau Ecology Institute in Nyingchi prefecture, which she founded in 1995 ... Located in Nyingchi's Bome county, the Gangxiang Spruce Forest covers an area of 46 sq km, more than 61 percent of which is covered by spruce trees ... Xu's recent trip to Nyingchi ......

Wreckage of a Hump Transport Plane That Crashed in Tibet 71 Years Ago Now En Route to the Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu, China

Edit PR Newswire 13 Aug 2015
CHENGDU, China, Aug ... The valuable historical relics which are an important part of the story of Sino-US cooperation during WWII will be sent to China's largest private museum, Jianchuan Museum ... The C-87 plane and the remains of five U.S ... China and the U.S ... The two countries held a transfer of remains ceremony at which then U.S ... transport airplane along the WWII Hump route remained in the depopulated zone in Nyingchi Prefecture in Tibet ... ....

"Searching for the Trail of the Hump" program kicks off in Sichuan A search convoy leaves for Tibet to seek out the debris of an air-freighter used by Allied forces during WW2

Edit PR Newswire 11 Aug 2015
CHENGDU, China, Aug ... A convoy arranged by the organizers left for the Ruoguo Glacier in Yigong, a village located in Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet, to search for the debris of the Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express air-freighter, serial 41-24668, that was flown and crashed into the Himalayas during World War II. Once found, the debris will be housed in Jianchuan Museum Cluster's Hall of the Heroes of the Flying Tigers ... ....

Integrating Tibet with the world

Edit The Hindu 13 Jul 2015
Heading towards eastern Tibet, from the junction at Xierong on the existing track, the first section of the Sichuan-Tibet railway will end at Bayi, 434 kilometres from Lhasa, in the strategic Nyingchi prefecture ... We are now constructing the railway from Lhasa to Nyingchi,” says Ji Guogang, Director of TAR’s Development and Reform Commission....

New city established in Tibet

Edit China Daily 19 Jun 2015
A ceremony marking Tibet's Nyingchi prefecture's elevation to a prefecture-level city was held on Friday. "Upgrading into a prefecture-level ... Located in southeastern Tibet at an average altitude of 3,100 meters, Nyingchi is now the fourth prefecture-level city in the Tibet autonomous region....

In pics: rape flowers in SW China's Tibet (Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China)

Edit noodls 16 Jun 2015
A woman takes pictures of the idyllic scenery of rape flowers in Nyingchi Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 2015....

Driving into a picture postcard

Edit China Daily 02 Jun 2015
The trend for motoring vacations to Tibet is catching on as Chinese tourists take the scenic route. Xie Ping has just come back from a driving trip to the Tibet autonomous region and she loved every minute of it ... But organizing her dream trip was far from easy ... "We do not calculate the specific number of self-driving travelers in the region," Zhong Airong, a staff member at the Nyingchi Prefecture Tourism Bureau, said ... ....

Tibets Nyingchi prefecture Switzerland of the East

Edit Big News Network 25 May 2015
In Tibetan, "Nyingchi" means "the throne of the sun". It is one of the important cradles of ancient Tibetan civilization which has been settled as early as four or five ... ....

The new king of the swingers

Edit China Daily 30 Apr 2015
On their journey from Dali to Bayi, the major town in Nyingchi prefecture, the men encountered a family of pilgrims headed for Lhasa, who they greeted and supplied with food ... A little later, a zoologist friend introduced Fan to Li Cheng, an amateur naturalist who had hundreds of photos of an "unidentified" monkey taken in Modog county in Nyingchi, close to the spot where Fan and Zhao had seen their mysterious monkeys....

Chinese vice president visits southeastern Tibets Nyingchi area

Edit Big News Network 19 Apr 2015
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (C, Front) receives a traditional white scarf known as "hada" during a visit to the village of Bagyi in Nyingchi Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet ... ....

Tibetan middle schools play catch-up

Edit China Daily 26 Jan 2015
With dreams and ambitions as her only companions, Tsangyal, a native of Nyingchi prefecture in Tibet, left home and traveled thousands of kilometers to Beijing in September 2013 to become the first member of her family to study outside of the autonomous region. A year later, the 17-year-old student remembered almost every detail of the first weeks in Beijing as if it were yesterday. "I cried almost every night ... ....

Tibetan farmers, herdsmen see double-digit growth in income

Edit China Daily 12 Jan 2015
"We used to get money mainly from farming ... We also run some inn and transportation businesses," said Padma in Medog county of Nyingchi prefecture ...   ....
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