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China wooing Tibetans with money and rails
In Tibet's Naqu prefecture a new high speed railway links 355 000 nomads and 7.5 million livestock to China as officials tout gains in income and market access while nomadic families resist mass slaughter of yaks and sheep citing family bonds and ritual after years of Beijing investments and cultural pressure.
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Naqo
Tibet
Duan Xiangzheng
Shanghai
Naqu
China
Lawang
Nagu
Beijing
Lhasa
Dalai Lama