Tibet’s 2018 GDP has reached $22 billion — about 191 times more than the 1959 figure calculated at comparable prices, said a white paper released on Wednesday by China.
The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama had fled the countryin 1959. And in the next 60 years the hard work of the people of Tibet sawagriculture and animal husbandry become modernised, documented the StateCouncil Information Office’s document titled ‘Democratic Reform in Tibet —Sixty Years On’.
The added value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry,fisheries and related service industries rose from 128 million yuan in 1959 to13.41 billion yuan in 2018, Xinhua news agency reported.
Tibet’s modern industry started from scratch and has grownsteadily, the white paper said, adding that Tibet’s industrial added valueincreased from 15 million yuan in 1959 to 11.45 billion yuan in 2018.
More than 100,000 farmers and herdsmen have earned morethrough tourism and Tibet has become an international tourist destination, itsaid.
Infrastructure has been improved in Tibet, as acomprehensive transportation network composed of highways, railways and airroutes has been formed, it added.