China Cultural Chronicles January 31, 2013
- Owner of a local food shop
- Yinghao narrow gauge railway depot
- Preparing coal briquetts
- Landscape for Nomads, Tibet 2012
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Settling nomads
Government policy aims to settle more and more nomads. It says that this is aimed at improving the economic viability of animal husbandry and lessening the effects of natural disasters on the livelihood of Tibetan herdsmen.
This allows the government to manage the nomadic population as it gives them fixed addresses.The Chinese government is removing the nomads from their traditional grasslands, sometimes forcibly, to exercise more control over the Tibetan population.
Culture shock
For most nomads, the transition to a more urban lifestyle is difficult.
They are often settled in featureless blocks of housing by the side of roads or in newly created urban areas, and face the problem of creating an entirely new and sustainable livelihood.
Approximately 40% of the ethnic Tibetan population is nomadic or semi-nomadic.
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- Orchard Central
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Decorations along the Orchard Road walkway with the theme Seasons of Love for the 2013 Chinese New Year festive.
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