Lhasa, photo from Chinatibet News.

In order to build Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, into a "National Garden City", the city will invest 1.70089 billion yuan to improve the environment, sources from the 2nd Session of the 9th Lhasa People's Political Consultative Conference and the 2nd Session of the 9th Lhasa People's Congress.

"Great changes have taken place in Lhasa in the past two years and it is more suitable for us to live in," said Qamba, an elder who does exercises in Cisotang Garden every day.

"The 1.7 billion investment will be used for five projects, three of which will also get investment from the central government," said Cida, vice head of Lhasa Construction Bureau.

(1 USD equals about 6.85 yuan.)