Every year 25 new films dubbed in Tibetan are shown in farming and pastoral areas, according to a white paper issued by the Information Office of the State Council on Thursday.

Since the establishment of the autonomous region in 1965, the Tibetan People's Radio (TPR) has persisted in making good Tibetan radio programs. It now has 42 programs broadcast in standard Tibetan, including 21 hours a day for news in Tibetan, and 18 hours a day in the Kamba dialect, said the white paper titled Protection and Development of Tibetan Culture.

The TPR's annual capacity for dubbing Tibetan TV programs increased from 1,200 hours in 1996 to 9,235 hours in 2007, it said.

The Tibet Television Station formally opened a Tibetan satellite TV channel in 1999, with 21 Tibetan programs, and films and TV dramas dubbed in Tibetan.

Starting from Oct. 1, 2007, Tibet satellite TV broadcasts 24 hours a day. Films and TV dramas dubbed in Tibetan reached 500 hours (639 episodes) in 2007, including 564 copies of films and 35programs, the paper said.

It added that Tibetan book, newspaper and periodical publication is developing rapidly. There are nine publishing houses in China that publish books in Tibetan. They publish more than 1,000 titles in Tibetan every year. Many ancient Tibetan books previously kept in private libraries or with only one copy extant have been collated by experts, and then published and distributed, it said.

At present, there are 14 Tibetan periodicals and ten Tibetan newspapers in Tibet. Over 20 periodicals in China have Tibetan-language versions.