 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
China settles 50,000 Tibetan nomads in towns: state media
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2009 China has settled nearly 50,000 Tibetan nomads into sedentary communities in a drive to protect the remote alpine region's fragile ecology from their herds, state media said Monday. Xinhua news agency said 49,631 people from nomadic families were settled over the past four years under a policy that Tibetan activists decry as destructive blow to the Buddhist region's ancient culture under Chinese rule. The nomads were relocated from a rugged region on the Tibetan plateau that is home to the headwaters of three of Asia's major rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, the report said. The report said the settlement policy was aimed at protecting the ecology of the area from overgrazing by the nomads' herds as fears grow for the region's ecology. Scientists say Tibet's glaciers are rapidly melting and warn this could cause widespread future flooding in regions downstream. They also say the elimination of the glaciers will threaten water supplies across Asia. However, exiled Tibetan activists have said the policy destroys the nomadic and environmentally sustainable pastoral culture of Tibetan cattle and sheep herders. The region's government has offered the nomads vocational training and set up a fund to encourage them to start their own businesses, while building new schools and other facilities, Xinhua quoted a local government official as saying. Chinese state media said in 2007 that the government eventually planned to resettle 100,000 Tibetan nomads. Violent anti-Chinese riots spread across Tibetan and adjacent regions populated by ethnic Tibetans in March of 2008. China has controlled the region for six decades. Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links China News from SinoDaily.com
Graffiti gains ground in ChinaBeijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2009 Clean-cut 23-year-old design graduate Chen Chuang sprayed a whitewashed wall in central Beijing in broad daylight with big jagged blue letters -- his clan's signature -- before scurrying away. "It's not really against the law," said his friend Liu Yuchen. Chen quickly added: "But once you get caught, it can be very serious." Chen and Liu are members of a small but growing group of ... read more |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2009 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Google
Facebook