China introduces lifetime travel passes for tourists to eastern Tibet’s Kardze prefecture as its Sinicization move proceeds apace

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’26) – In order to give a significant boost to tourism in eastern Tibet’s Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi or Garzê) region, which presently forms part of China’s Sichuan province, the local government has introduced what has been called a groundbreaking lifetime travel pass system. The prefecture has been one of the eastern Tibetan regions most frequently hit by protests calling for Tibet’s independence not long ago, with many of the surviving protesters still in jail.

While giving a boost to tourism may give local Tibetans more economic opportunities, the reality seen everywhere in Tibet is that it also attracts hordes of Chinese immigrants who corner most of the more l...

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