Output of traditional Tibetan medicine rose to 2,300 tons, valued at 1.5 billion yuan (217 million U.S. dollars) in 2016, due to growing demand for the ancient medicine. Twenty-one pharmaceutical companies in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region have been awarded the certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Products, according to the region’s Commission of
The second-largest airport terminal in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region started operation Monday [6 March 2017]. The new terminal, the sixth to open in Tibet, is located at Nyingchi Mainling Airport. It covers an area of 10,300 square meters and will be able to handle 750,000 passengers and 3,000 metric tons of cargo throughput annually
The output of bottled natural drinking water from Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, known as “Asia’s water tower,” will surpass one million metric tons this year. Qiu Chuan, deputy director of the regional industry and information technology department, said Tibet has more than 40 bottled water production lines with combined capacity of 3.25 million tons
Caterpillar fungus, known in China as “worm grass,” is a valuable material used in Traditional Chinese medicine that is only found in high-altitude regions, especially the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Caterpillar fungus was once literally worth more than its weight in gold in China, but over the past three years, prices have fallen by half…Full Article ECNS.cn
We will soon know if coffee crops can thrive on the roof of the world, as Tibet has begun experimenting with coffee plantation. Experts supervised locals to plant 500 grams of coffee seeds from Yunnan Province in a seven-square-meter field in Zayu County, Dawa Toinzhub, deputy head of the county’s agriculture and animal husbandry bureau
KFC has become the first Western fast food giant to open a branch in the Tibet autonomous region. After its doors opened on Tuesday [8 March 2016] in Lhasa, more than 1,000 customers came to eat, according to store manager Yu Zhengqing. It remained crowded on Wednesday, with locals forming long lines inside the restaurant
U.S. fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has decided to open its first chain store in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region next month. KFC signed a contract with a shopping mall in downtown Lhasa, capital of the region, to open the first KFC restaurant in Tibet by the end of January, 2016, said Chen Biao,
Southwest China’s Tibet plans to boost its output of bottled natural drinking water to 5 million tonnes per year by 2020, with the output value topping 40 billion yuan [~US$6.3 billion], the Tibet Economic News reported on Thursday, citing a government plan on the natural drinking water industry of Tibet. The designed output capacity of
Two Starbucks stores opened Friday [11 September 2015] in Xining City, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province, the first of the global coffeehouse chain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The two stores, close to each other, are in Limeng Business Street in the downtown area. “There is no Starbucks in Tibet (Autonomous Region). It is the
Trees are something of a rarity in the Tibet autonomous region. Conditions on the high-altitude plateau of the Nagqu Grassland – 4,500 meters above sea level – are not conducive to their growth, except for a few places in eastern Nagqu prefecture. Many of the nomads who inhabit the area had seldom seen a tree