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Article: Backgrounder: Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 26, 1999
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Editor's Note: This year is the 40th anniversary of the
democratic
reform of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of
China. To help readers acquire a better understanding of Tibet, the
Xinhua News Agency will release a series of backgrounders on the
politics, economy, culture and society of the Tibet Autonomous
Region
beginning today.
The following is a brief introduction to the Tibet Autonomous
Region:
Tibet has been an administrative region of China since the Yuan
Dynasty (1271-1368). The central people's government and the local
government of Tibet signed the 17-Article Agreement on measures for
the peaceful liberation of Tibet on May 23, 1951, and Tibet was
peacefully ...