A college for Tibetan traditional medicine in Southwest China's Tibet has been approved to grant doctorates, the college said.

Qinghai Nationalities University recently established the Qinghai Province Tibetan Medicine Research Institute

Northwest China's Qinghai Province has effectively curtailed the epidemic and spread of the hydatid disease, according to information released by the Health and Family Planning Commission of the province on May 3.

Since 2009, Tibet Autonomous Region has allocated 30 million yuan (4.7 million US dollars) annually in public funds to decrease the price of iodized salt from 1.5 yuan/kg to 0.5 yuan/kg.

Elementary schools in Nyingchi city of southwest China’s Tibet have always done a good job in bilingual education.

A total of 120 elementary school students from Number Four Experimental School of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, visited the region’s Bureau of Meteorology on April 26th .

Due to historical reasons, in the past, Tibetan language education in Chamdo (situated at the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region) is underdeveloped when compared to central areas in the TAR, such as Lhasa, Shigatse, and Lhoka. After the third plenary session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, Tibetan language education has since been rejuvenated.

The Burang County in Ngari, Tibet has greatly improved its education quality with much better students’ performance after the County launched a series of projects focusing on education quality in recent years.