ཊིབེཏ་ Tibet to Beijing:Railroad Photo Show Ⓒ 2009 William Kai Stephanos 中国 China

Tibet ,ཊིབེཏ་ Lhasa to Beijing 中国: Qinghai Railroad 'skytrain'
Railroad Photo Show July 2007...49 hours on the train w/ out getting off....starts in the wee morning hours of Lhasa to landscapes in the wild then on to photos of Chengdu before the earthquake.........the video goes way past Chengdu....the very last photo is Tienanmen Square in the rain at night...xie xie
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How China is Plundering the Natural Resources of Tibet:
http://woodsmoke.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-china-is-plundering-the-natural...

China is incurring huge expenditure in transferring and consolidating the Chinese population in Tibet. Massive investment has been made to build a network of modern highways all over Tibet. China can also boast of having laid the highest railway track in the world that connects Lhasa with Beijing. In fact, China often complains that its civilizing mission in Tibet is costing the government and people of China large amounts in terms of subsidies to an under-developed region. According to official Chinese statistics, the level of annual subsidies to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in the late 1980s was around 1 billion yuan or $270 million. However, all the infrastructure that China has built in Tibet has not made the lives of the native Tibetans any better; it has only taken the exploitative apparatuses of the Chinese government deeper.




Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources has announced monumental new resource discoveries all across Tibet. The findings are the culmination of a secret 7-year, $44 million survey project, which began in 1999. More than 1,000 researchers were divided into 24 separate groups and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to geologically map the entire Tibetan region. Their findings have lead to a discovery of 16 major new deposits of copper, iron, lead, zinc and other minerals worth an estimated $128 billion. These discoveries add to Tibets proven deposits of 126 minerals, with a significant share of the worlds reserves in lithium, chromite, copper, borax, and iron. Lack of resources has been a bottleneck for the economy, Meng Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey, had once complained in his statements. The discoveries in Tibet will alleviate the mounting resources pressure China is facing.




Tibet is now said to hold as much as 40 million tons of copper — one third of Chinas total, 40 million tons of lead and zinc, and more than a billion tons of high-grade iron. Among the Tibet discoveries is Chinas first substantial rich-iron supply. A seam called Nyixung, is alone expected to contain as much as 500 million tons. Thats enough to reduce Chinese iron import by 20 per cent. The new copper reserves are no less substantial. A 250-mile seam of the metal has been found along Tibets environmentally sensitive Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. One mine there, called Yulong, already described as the second-largest reserve in China, is now estimated to hold as much as 18 million tons, according to the government news site Xinhua and could soon become the largest copper mine in the country, helping to feed Chinas increasing demand of the metal used for electrical wiring and power generation. China, which until now has imported much of its copper from Chile, is estimated to hold 5.6 per cent of the worlds copper and is its seventh largest producer.




The riches that China expects to extract from Tibet in the near future, perhaps better explains the money that China annually spends on Tibet than the empty claims of modernizing Tibet. [click on link for more...]


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William Kai Stephanos

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[chirogirl67550]

Captivating!! I don't think, until now, I really understood the power of photos---In 21 minutes, I've gained a whole new perspective of China...amazing. The one thing that stood out in this expose, besides the beauty of the land, was the condition that the people lived in, as huge, massive roads were being built. Too many impressions to share in this forum...Thank you..You are a brilliant photographer...and that's a fact!!

Peace,

Yvonne and Bob

Ava,Illinois

Obamaland

[unit45x]

I appreciate your comment. Photos can be very powerful, I agree. China is indeed a very complicated and fascinating place.

unit45x

[GovmentTookMaBaby]

beautiful. I'm glad i finally took the time to watch this all the way through. worth every second.

[unit45x]

thanks

[emtomology]

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lubunumber2]

Varunb82 is just ignorant, I dont know what else to say. Nice video btw

[tibetsorrow59]

@chirogirl67550 heythis is not China okay. that's the fact... cuz there is noway that china has such a wonderful landscaps...As result of CCP's misused nature, everything is either drought up or washed away... so don't get confusion here...

[wikct2]

@varunb82 stop generalize China. You should stop eat your cow! The Tibetans in China have better life than the ones in India. One more thing, the ones in India, most of them are the slave masters who want to go back to the old time when they can treat their slaves brutally and subhuman. The ones in China are liberated by Chinese army. Just like the civil war in US, the North fight against the south and liberated the slaves from the white control freaks and you have the US of A.

[ioriiorikyo]

@varunb82 lol U should blame korean more. not every chinese eats dogs and other strange things as U see.

[varunb82]

what a shame on china.......watch you tube videos....ppl torture and eat dogs..man's best friend.....shame on you....your karma will catch up with you and strangle you tight with a noose....poor tibetans coming over and living in India.....we love them

[mispistoleros]

if tibet's next generation resorts to armed resistance, this will make a target worthy of lawrence of arabia.