Tibetan economy

Author: Wang Wenchang
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: The Tibet Autonomous Region has an average elevation of over 4,000 meters, making it the main part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and known as the "Roof of the World." The world's highest peak, Mount Everest (elevation 8,848.13 meters), stands on the Sino-Nepalese border in the middle of the Himalayas. Within a radius of over 5,000 square kilometers around it, there are 4 peaks over 8,000 meters and 38 peaks over 7,000 meters. In the Tibet Autonomous Region, there are more than 20 rivers with a drainage area greater than 10,000 square kilometers and over 100 rivers with a drainage area greater than 2,000 square kilometers. Famous rivers include the Jinsha River, Nujiang River, Lancang River, and Yarlung Tsangpo River. The historical flow of Tibet's economy has gently flowed through agriculture, animal husbandry, ethnic handicrafts, and production and lifestyles, and the region still retains its distant traditional economy. Tibet is one of China's five major pastoral regions, with 0.8 billion hectares of grassland. The long-standing animal husbandry has always held a very important position in Tibet's economy. In the early 1950s, the output value of animal husbandry accounted for two-thirds of the total output value of agriculture and animal husbandry.