Specific recommendations on development and the Tibetan economy E-mail
29 February, 2008 International Campaign for Tibet

The world's highest railroad across the Tibetan plateau to Lhasa (completed in July 2006) is one component of Beijing's ambitious plans to develop the western regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, the project also represents China's aim to expand the influence and consolidate the control of the Chinese Communist Party over Tibet. ICT argues that only a re-orientation of economic strategy towards local integration – in effect, 'Tibetanizing' development – and the participation of Tibetans in decision-making on their economy could reverse the trend of marginalization and estrangement that remains a factor in ongoing unrest. Taken from ICT's report "Tracking the Steel Dragon: How China's Economic Policies and the Railway are Transforming Tibet" (February 2008).


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