The Central Government of the People's Republic of China and the local government of Tibet signed the "Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful liberation of Tibet" on May 23, 1951 in Beijing, and Tibet realized peaceful liberation. The image shows representatives of the Central People's Government signing the agreement.
Representatives of the local government of Tibet signing the "Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet".
Founding of Tibet Autonomous Region
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigmei was elected Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region at the first session of the First Regional People's Congress on September 9, 1965
Female deputies to the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet is located in southwest China.The ancestors of the Tibetan race who lived there struck up links with the Han in the Central Plains long before the Christian era.Later, over a long period of years, the numerous tribes scattered on the Tibet Plateau became unified to form the present Tibetan race.By the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Tibetans and Hans had, through marriage between royal families and meetings leading to alliances, cemented political and kinship ties of unity and political friendship and formed close economic and cultural relations, laying a solid foundation for the ultimate founding of a unified nation.In Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the statue of the Tang Princess Wen Cheng, who married the Tubo tsampo, king of Tibet, in 641, is still enshrined and worshiped in the Potala Palace.The Tang-Tubo Alliance Monument marking the meeting for this purpose between Tang and Tubo erected in 823 still stands in the square in front of the Jokhang Monastery.
The monument inscription reads in part, "The two sovereigns, uncle and nephew, having come to agreement that their territories be united as one, have signed this alliance of great peace to last for eternity! May God and humanity bear witness thereto so that it may be praised from generation to generation."
In the early 13th century, Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongols, established the Mongol Khanate in north China.The Yuan emperor established the Xuanzheng Yuan or Ministry for the Spread of Governance to directly handle important military and political affairs of the Tibet region.
In 1368 the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty in China, and inherited the right to rule Tibet.
When the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty in 1644, it further strengthened administration over Tibet.In 1653 and 1713, the Qing emperors granted honorific titles to the 5th Dalai Lama and the 5th Bainqen Lama, henceforth officially establishing the titles of the Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Erdeni and their political and religious status in Tibet.The Dalai Lama ruled the bulk of areas from Lhasa while the Bainqen Erdeni ruled the remaining area of Tibet from Xigaze.In order to perfect Tibet's administrative organizations, the Qing Dynasty on many occasions enacted "regulations" to rectify and reform old systems and establish new ones.The Authorized Regulations for the Better Governing of Tibet, promulgated in 1793, had 29 articles.
In the autumn of 1911, revolution took place in China's interior, overthrowing the 270-year-old rule of the Qing Dynasty and establishing the Republic of China.Upon its founding, the Republic of China declared itself a unified republic of the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui, Tibetan and other races.In his inauguration statement on January 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen, the provisional first president of the Republic of China, declared to the whole world: "The foundation of the country lies in the people, and the unification of lands inhabited by the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan people into one country means the unification of the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan races. It is called national unification."The five-color flag used as the national flag at that time represented the unification of the five main races.In March the Nanjing-based provisional senate of the Republic of China promulgated the republic's first constitution, the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China, in which it was clearly stipulated that Tibet was a part of the territory of the Republic of China.
Cities and Towns
Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region,in 2001
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Lhasa before democratic reforms in 1959
