Dubbed as "the ridge of the world's ridge", Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region locates in the north of Tibet and the local people impress the journalists with their new outlook.
Yada's houses of four generations
Yada from Senge Kagang village of Amdo county, photo by Wang Fei from CTIC.
The remaining earth house of Yada's, photo by Zhang Xiaoping from CTIC."Before the peaceful liberation in Tibet I lived in a cave and during the liberation I moved into a black tent. Later I built an earth house and now my family lives in a house made of stones," Yada from Senge Kagang village of Amdo county told the reporter in his comfortable home.
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway has brought more changes to to Yada's life. The villagers in Senge Kagang village with an altitude of 4,800 meters had lived a life by raising flocks and herds. When the construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway reached Amdo county, most of the laborers in the village participated in and earned some money. "At that time, our village organized about 70 people to build the railway and each of us can get 20,000 yuan in half a year. After 4 years, we all saved enough money to build new houses," Yada said.
Later, TAR set up a base of feeding yaks in the village and Yada led the villagers to turn the yak milk into yoghourt for sale. As Amdo county is the 1st station that the train on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to arrive after passing the Mt. Nyainqentanglha, Yada hopes to set a distribution spot on the platform to sell their yoghourt and other characteristic products to tourists. In addition, he wishes that the train on the railway could stay longer.
Zangkel Droje's two-storey building thanks to the housing project
Zangkel Droje from the 4th village of Zaren town of Amdo county, photo by Wang Fei from CTIC.
Zangkel Droje's sitting room, photo by Zhang Xiaoping from CTIC.Zangkel Droje from the 4th village of Zaren town of Amdo county has a beautiful two-storey building, which benefits from the housing project for low-income rural people. "Since 2006 we started the housing project. And the government allocated 15,000 yuan for each household. The price of wood materials for the project is lower than the market price with the help from the government. And the government offers us cement free of charge."
Tsering Wangyal, an official for the project, told the reporter that this year 1,239 households benefit from the project. And by the end of the year, the housing project in the whole county is to finish. Rural people who have moved into their new houses not only enjoy the satellite TVs but also drink clean tap water.
The rural people said:"In our home town, all the aspects of our lives are changing except for the natural conditions."
Juejue's new concept of life
Juejue, photo by Wang Fei from CTIC.
Juejue's home, photo by Wang Fei from CTIC.Juejue's home near the center of Amdo county looks pretty nice. Juejue is a Tibetan young businessman who spent 180,000 yuan on building his houses with stones from Lhasa.
In the past, Juejue's family lived in rural areas with 80 sheep and 30 cattle. When the Tibet Autonomous Region began implementing favorable policies for rural people, Juejue bought a truck for transportation business after selling most of the livestock. And when the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was to start operation, he built 28 rooms in the Amdo county to rent or sell. In addition, he built hotels and bars around. In order to look after his business, he moved his home around as well.
He also bought a house at a cost of 250,000 yuan for his parents in Lhasa and rent houses and grasslands in his hometown to others.
Juejue pays great attention to his children's education as well. His two children are now studying in Lhasa Beijing Middle School and Nagqu Senior Middle School respectively, which makes Juejue feel gratified.
"When I was a small boy, it took us 45 days to get to Lhasa where we exchange our livestocks and salt into some commodities," Juejue said, "Nowadays it only takes 6 hours with a ticket of 60 yuan. I plan to visit Beijing and Shanghai as the train is so convenient. Before I only arrived in Lanzhou and Xining by car."
Bu Norbu's way of becoming rich
Zhao Xiaoping, Chief editor of CTIC, poses with Bu Norbu, photo by Wang Fei from CTIC.As a common rural man from Luoma town of Nagqu county in Nagqu prefecture, 43-year-old Bu Norbu has become a leader for helping the local people become rich.
He learned driving when 16 years old and a year later he did transportation business in Nyima county, Shuanghu county and other remote places in northern Tibet. With the operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, he became a boss by transporting architecture materials such as sand and stones because each truch can bring 300,000 yuan annually. Later, he set up the 1st rural organization for economic co-operation in northern Tibet.
Bu Norbu began to think of ways to help villagers after he became rich. In 2005, he invested more than 200,000 yuan to build a factory for making ghee. At that time only 12 households provided milk for him. After some time he found that the profit is much higher if the milk is made into yoghourt instead of ghee. So he began to make yoghourt and other milk products such as lala besides ghee.
As his business grows, more and more people cooperate with Bu Norbu to provide him yak milk because he will share profit with the rural people after yoghourt products sold out. Currently, 1,972 people from 328 households have signed contracts with him.
Last year, his investment on purchasing milk and lala reached 3.18 million yuan. And each household that cooperated with his factory can earn 30,000 yuan by selling milk.
Also he has a dream: to set up a modern yoghourt factory after purchasing equipments concerned. At that time people in the mainland will be able to taste yoghourt from northern Tibet.
These are rural people in northern Tibet! They are worthy of great respect from the world.
(1 USD equals about 6.83 yuan.)
Source:China Tibet Information Center
http://chinatibet.people.com.cn/6657062.pdf
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