Liu Fang
China Tibet News
May 26, 2015
According to the report of China’s Xinhua News Agency, the Water Resources Department of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region has announced that a total investment of 3.97 billion yuan RMB from the central government in China’s capital Beijing has been carried out in T.A.R. during the first 4 months of year 2015, which has exceeded the annual assignment of 3.5 billion of the whole year.
300 miles away from Lhasa City,Panam County of Shigatse City is one of the granaries in T.A.R.. In the past, farmers of Panam irrigated their fields through rain water and traditional water diversion. “Thanks for the farmland water conservancy project, our grain output has been doubled, and my personal income last year has increased tens of thousands yuan.” says Dondrup, a villager in Jengar of Panam.
Under the title of “Asia’s water tower”, there are 28 rivers whose drainage areas have exceeded 10,000 km² and the annually average amount of water resource has reached 430 billion m³ in Tibet. Yeshe Drogar, a cadre of T.A.R. Water Resources Department, says that reasonable and scientific exploitation on Tibet’s abundant water resources and improvement of water use efficiency concern local people’s life and Tibet’s development.
