Tibet's GDP grows by 191 times from 1959 to 2018: white paper

An agricultural technician instructs farmers in planting at a greenhouse in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 28, 2016. Tibet's 2018 GDP reached 147.76 billion yuan (22 billion U.S. dollars), about 191 times more than the 1959 figure calculated at comparable prices, said a white paper released Wednesday by China's State Council Information Office. Through 60 years of hard work, the people in Tibet have seen agriculture and animal husbandry become increasingly modernized, said the white paper, titled "Democratic Reform in Tibet -- Sixty Years On." (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)