Rikaze is located in the southwest border of China, southwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region, bordering Nepal, Bhutan and India in the south, bordering the Ali region in the west, the Nagchu region in the north, and neighboring Lhasa City and Shannan region in the east. The city's latitude and longitude span between 82°00′ and 90°20′ east longitude and 27°23′ and 31°49′ north latitude. The city has a land area of 182,000 square kilometers, with a length of 800 kilometers from east to west and a width of 220 kilometers from north to south.
Rikaze is roughly in the middle of the Himalayan mountain system and the middle of the Gangdisi-Nenching Tanggula Mountains, the north and south of the terrain is higher, between the South Tibetan plateau and the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin. Rikaze terrain is complex and diverse, basically consists of high mountains, broad valleys and lake basins, with an average elevation of 4,000 meters above sea level.
The Himalayas, which stretches across the southern part of the territory, is the youngest and tallest mountain system in the world, with an average elevation of over 6,000 meters, with peaks and mountains. In Rikaze 8000 meters above the peaks of five, namely, Mount Everest, Luozi Peak (8516 meters), Makalu Peak (8463 meters), Zhuoyou Peak (8201 meters), Shishapangma Peak (8012 meters). Among them is located in Shigatse and Nepal border on Mount Everest is the world's first peak, elevation 8848.13 meters, male at the top of the world, looking down on the mountains, and there are 14 peaks above 7000 meters. In addition, there are many high mountains such as Karura, Gatso La, Mara, Zhongla, Lhagi, and Mahela.
The valley plains of the Yarlung Tsangpo and Nyanchu River basins in the upper part of the south Tibetan valley are mainly made up of the Lhatse-Renbu broad valley and the Gyantse-Rikaze plains. There are also the Pengqu River Valley Plain on the north side of the Himalayas and on the South Tibetan Plateau, as well as some of its sporadic river valley plains. These valleys have gentle slopes, deep soil layers, pleasant climate and more abundant water sources. Rikaze *** found deposits, mining (mineralization) points and find mineral clues 234, there are gold, silver, zinc, lead, lithium, antimony, mercury, copper, iron, manganese, cesium, chromium, boron, mica, arsenic, salt, manganese, potassium, crystals, sulfur, phosphorus, alumina, coal, peat, oil shale, magnesia, china clay, gypsum, graphite, limestone, Rinbou Jade stone and other 46 kinds of, of which the borax reserves are larger.
The main mined minerals are gold, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, antimony, jade, boron, mineral water, granite and so on.
Gold: Rikaze long history of gold mining, reserves are quite abundant, rock gold mining location for Xietongmen County Rongma Township. Alluvial gold mines are South Mulin County, Dazhi gold mine, Angren Amu Xiong gold mine.
Lithium, boron ore: lithium resources amounted to 1.53 million tons, boron trioxide resources amounted to 32.2 million tons of potassium for 35.9 million tons, according to the 1990 value of the currency and one-third of the extractable ratio, the potential value of more than 150 billion yuan. Qiuli Nanmu Lake borax mine, accompanied by some manganese, borax reserves of 860,000 tons, the grade reached more than 28%.
Mineral water: mineral water has Gangba QuDenNiMa mineral water and JiangZiLongMa mineral water. The main production QuDengNiMa mineral water. QuDengNiMa mineral water spring mouth 5128 meters above sea level, is the world's highest mineral water source, the daily output of about 800 tons of water.
Construction materials: sand and gravel mainly in the "Ya Jiang" and "Nianhe" around the mining; granite is mainly in the Kangma County, Xietongmen County, Lhazhi County are mined Agriculture and animal husbandry is the foundation of the national economy and the pillar industry, the development of the Riqazhi economic Depends largely on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. Rikaze is an important commodity grain base in the Tibet Autonomous Region, with a cultivated area of 1.25 million mu, accounting for 1/3 of the Tibet Autonomous Region, grain and oil production accounting for about 40% of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the commodity grain sold to the state accounting for 50-70% of the Tibet Autonomous Region, with the total amount of grain and oil production ranking first in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Livestock industry also occupies a very important position, the annual livestock rearing amounted to more than 5.5 million heads (only, horses), equivalent to more than 8 million sheep units, ranking second in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Rikaze is not only the Tibet autonomous region agriculture and animal husbandry big area, is also one of the areas of agricultural and livestock specialties. According to statistics, there are more than a dozen kinds of livestock and local specialty products. Among them, Yadong fish, Pari yak, Gamba sheep, Sangsang ghee, Khorba sheep, Garlic Jiangzhe, "United Garm" high-grade tsampa, buckwheat in Shigatse, Aimagang potatoes, Razi high-quality rapeseed and so on.
In 1989, the total output value of agriculture and animal husbandry in Shigatse amounted to 18777.30 million yuan, an increase of 31.46% over 1980. Among them, the agricultural output value accounted for 49.40%, and the pastoral output value accounted for 42.14%.
In 1999, the total output of grain and oil reached 352,000 tons, an increase of 72,000 tons over 1994, an increase of 25.7%; the total output value of agriculture amounted to 875,450,600 yuan, an increase of 473,815,900 yuan over 1994, an increase of 54.1%; farmers and herdsmen per capita net income of 1,270 yuan, an increase of 249.88 yuan over 1994, an increase of 24.5%; In 1999, the output value of the pastoral industry amounted to 421,110,800 yuan, an increase of 152,918,800 yuan over 1994, an increase of 36.3%, and the mortality rate of adult animals was only about 2%.
At the end of 2002, the total income of the rural economy reached 1.299 billion yuan, of which the income from the primary industry amounted to 840 million yuan, accounting for 65% of the total income. The per capita income of farmers and herdsmen amounted to 1,690 yuan, an increase of 65.7 percent and 33.1 percent over 1994 and 1999 respectively. Rikaze total grain and oil production reached 780.91 million pounds, an increase of 219.25 million pounds and 35.5 million pounds over 1994 and 1999 respectively, an increase of 28.1% and 4.5%. Among them, the grain output of 739.84 million pounds, rapeseed production of 41.07 million pounds, vegetable production of 158 million pounds. Rikaze at the end of the year livestock stock control at 5.7 million heads (only, horses). Meat production of 27,100 tons, than in 1994 and 1999, respectively, an increase of 57.6% and 19.9%. The total milk production was 57,200 tons, an increase of 60.7% and 21.7% over 1994 and 1999 respectively.
In 2013, Rikaze promoted the "Tibetan Green 2000" seed 85,000 mu, accounting for 80% of the region's promotional tasks, and the promotion of "Himalayan No. 22" 20,600 mu; the plateau characteristics of agricultural products base to become the second batch of Chinese foreign trade Transformation and upgrading of professional demonstration base; respectively, in jiangzi, lazhi and other 10 counties in the implementation of agricultural machinery demonstration village 10; new renewed barley production base, back to grass project, such as agriculture and animal husbandry projects in 19 categories of 186, complete the national investment of 391 million yuan. 2013, zhijiazhe realize agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries gross output value of 3.576 billion yuan, an increase of 3.7%. Rikaze is located in the southwest border of China, under the jurisdiction of 18 districts and counties in *** there are 9 border counties, and Nepal, Bhutan, India, three countries border, the border is 1,573 kilometers long, accounting for about half of the length of the border in the region. There are 4 open ports, 29 mutual trade points.
In 1984, the state invested in the formation of the first professional foreign trade enterprises in Rikaze, in 2002, Rikaze **** there are all kinds of foreign trade enterprises 7, state-owned, collective, private and joint-stock system.
In 2002, the import and export turnover of foreign trade at the Rikaze port amounted to 500 million yuan (excluding the turnover of the mutual market), an increase of more than six times over the 1987 figure of about 70 million yuan.
From 1984 to 2000, Rikaze foreign trade company cumulative export of nearly 100,000 live sheep, export wool more than 4,000 tons, export more than 1,500 tons of rapeseed, export nearly 1,000 tons of cattle and cashmere, the export of about 13,000 tons of barley, the cumulative export of foreign exchange earnings of 21,930,000 U.S. dollars, an average of the year for farmers and herdsmen to convert the cash income of about 10 million yuan yuan.
In 2002. Foreign trade companies to achieve export earnings of nearly 5 million U.S. dollars, foreign export markets in addition to the traditional Kingdom of Nepal, but also to develop India, Japan and other countries and Europe and the United States market, foreign export products in addition to the traditional wool, silk and satin, etc., but also the development of textiles, electromechanical products, toys and so on.
In 2002, Rikaze***exported 2005 tons of rapeseed and 200 tons of wool, exactly three times more than in 2001.In 2001, the mutual trade volume of Rikaze was 78.9 million yuan RMB, of which 51.3 million yuan was exported and 27.6 million yuan was imported.In 2002, the mutual trade volume of Rikaze was 86.4 million yuan RMB, a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent, of which 71.06 million yuan of exports, an increase of about 38.5% year-on-year.
In 2013, Rikaze*** had three opened ports, one to be restored to open, and 28 mutual trade points. Ninety percent of the border trade in the Tibet Autonomous Region takes place at the major ports in Shigatse. The border small trade volume of Zhangmu port reaches 2.044 billion yuan, accounting for more than 60% of the total foreign trade import and export of the whole region. Rikaze Regional Post and Telecommunications Bureau, built in June 1952, was composed of more than 10 people, most of whom came from the officers and soldiers of the 18th Army who peacefully liberated Tibet. On October 1 of the same year, Rikaze District Post and Telecommunications Bureau officially opened for business. At that time, the post and telegraph bureau was particularly embarrassed, only a few dilapidated houses and backward communication equipment, business only telegraph, telegraph remittance, letters, parcels and so on. Postal transportation tools are liberation brand cars, horseback class, postal routes are also opened less. 1969 December. Post and electricity according to the government's needs, the post and electricity to separate camp, lasted four years of separation, and in August 1973, the post and electricity began to merge, and then has been side by side until 1998. September 10, 1998, the post and electricity after the separation of the post and electricity, the Rikaze District Post Office began to operate independently, under the jurisdiction of the 17 counties (ports) Post Office. Rikaze self-run bureau branch offices, 27, with 6 postal routes, the total length of postal routes 2822 kilometers one-way through the 17 counties in Rikaze (port) Post Office, including the national level postal routes, 2. At the end of 2002, the business income has reached 9,580,000 yuan, the total volume of business of 961 yuan, the per capita labor productivity of 53,519.55 yuan.
Rikaze Telecommunication Branch was formally established on July 18, 2000, with 18 county (port) telecommunication bureaus and 4 telecommunication branch offices. By the end of 2002, Rikaze 18 counties (ports) has opened 17 counties of fiber-optic cable and access to the local network, telephone exchange capacity has reached 43,248 doors, the switching capacity of the practical capacity has reached 28,162 doors; communications cable line total length of 1,878.37 kilometers; long-distance business circuits amounted to a total of 4,910, the telephone penetration rate increased from 3.33% in 2002 to 4.41%. Rikaze urban telephone penetration rate of 28.82 per 100 people, Rikaze telecom communications revenue of 48.24 million yuan, labor productivity of 24.49 yuan.
Rikaze mobile communications branch in July 28, 2000 was formally established, and independent operation, separate accounting, under the China Mobile Group Tibet Autonomous Region Mobile Communications Company, the end of 2000 online subscribers 2,134, business income of 7.5 million yuan, fixed assets of 3.34 million yuan.
China Unicom Rikaze Branch is August 11, 2000, approved by China Unicom Limited, in Rikaze, on the basis of the preparation for the establishment of Guoxin Paging Company Limited, March 22, 2001 was formally established. Before the peaceful liberation of Tibet, Rikaze did not have a modern sense of the road, only mule and horse stagecoach road, goods transportation by people and animals to complete. Rikaze region of old Tibet has access to India karenbo and Nepal's ancient road, Rikaze to India's road is from lazi to the southwest by xie Gaer, Tingri, neramu to Nepal's capital city of kathmandu to India. 1951 in March started construction of the lazhi highway, 1955 on October 20, the completion of the open to traffic. The end of the Rikaze area without "a highway" history, opened up a new era of road construction in Rikaze area. 1955 to work for the construction of Rikaze to Jiangzi road, opened to traffic in October 1955, the whole line is 90 kilometers long, 1956 construction of the Laya highway, the total length of 547 kilometers. 1958 Riding Highway was constructed, and the Lapu Highway from Lhatse to Puran was constructed in 1960. In 1962, the Riding Highway was further reconstructed as part of the Sino-Nepalese Highway, and construction of the Sino-Nepalese Highway began in 1962, and the road was opened to traffic on July 10, 1962. 1991, construction of the reconstruction of the section of Sino-Nepalese Highway from Dazhukha to Shigatse began on April 20, 1991, and the road was opened to traffic on November 1992; 1993 On April 1, 1993, the reconstruction of the Zhongnian highway section from Liu District to Zhongbei Township was started and opened to traffic in November 1994.In 1960, the construction of the Gaji highway from Gaja to Jilong was started and opened to traffic in 1963.In 1960, the highway from Tingri to Jilong was constructed, with a total length of 190 kilometers.The highway from Rikaze to Namling was constructed, with a total length of 60 kilometers, and the eleven counties that belonged to the Rikaze region in 1960 County in addition to Nyalamu and Xietongmen two counties, the realization of the county county through the car. 1967 April Rikaze special commission traffic construction bureau of the Rikaze to Xietongmen highway was measured and set up in May 1967 to start construction.
Seventies Rikaze county and township road length of 6153 kilometers, 81 districts (townships), 336 communes, 1,338 production teams through the highway or simple highway, the road is not accessible to 14 districts, 141 communes, 854 production teams, the rate of access to the district accounted for 85.9%, the commune accounted for 70.3%, 61% of the production teams, 11 counties and districts district access to the highway, the 2 counties and the community community access to the highway.
In the eighties, the eighteen counties in the Rikaze region are open to the road. 99 district community of 92 district community has been open to traffic, 475 communes in 365 has been open to the road, the rate of access to 76.8%, 2,192 production team of 2,093 has been open to the road, the rate of access to 95.4%, the Rikaze county and township highway mileage of 1,716 kilometers.
To 2002, has formed the center of Rikaze City, to Lhasa, Shannan, Ali, neighboring Nepal, India and the region's eighteen counties and cities; G318, G219 as the main trunk, the provincial highway as the backbone of the county and township highways, special highways, border highways as the basis for the highway transportation network. As of 2002 Rikaze highway mileage of 12242.691 kilometers, Rikaze 2 national highways 1240.625 kilometers, 6 provincial highways 871.096 kilometers, 14 county roads 1847.29 kilometers, 65 township roads 3686.66 kilometers, 328 village roads and border highways (including special highways) 4597.02 kilometers. There is not a single Grade II and Grade II or above highway in Shigatse; of the 203 townships in Shigatse, 198 townships are connected to highways, accounting for 97.54% of the total number of townships, 5 townships are not connected to highways, accounting for 2.46% of the total number of townships, 1,451 administrative villages, 1,433 administrative villages are connected to highways, accounting for 81.84% of the total number of administrative villages, and 318 administrative villages are not connected to highways, accounting for 18.16.% of the total number of administrative villages; highways are not connected to highways. 18.16.%; the density of highway is 6.7243 km/hundred square kilometers. Grade highway 1962.685 kilometers, such as outside the highway 10280.006 kilometers.
On July 8, 2011, Rikaze Peace Airport officially opened.
In 2013, the city of Shigatse **** there are 89 bus vehicles, 9 urban bus lines, 11 bus lines around the city. In 2001, the built-up urban area of 18 districts and counties in Shigatse reached 26.44 square kilometers, an increase of 45% over 1996. Among them, the built-up urban area of Sanjuzhiz District reached 17.59 square kilometers, an increase of 50% compared with 1996.The urbanization level of Rikaze in 2001 was 9.7%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points compared with 1994. Among them, the urbanization level of Rikaze City was 35%, an increase of 5 percentage points over 1994. from 1994 to 2000, Rikaze's fixed assets totaled 2.037 billion yuan.
In 2000, Rikaze fixed assets investment completed 460 million yuan, an increase of 676.85 times over 1959, 4.67 times over 1994, the districts and counties only between 1994 and 2000, multi-faceted fund-raising of 502 million yuan for the further improvement of the town infrastructure and construction; of which only the Sanjuzhi District during this period invested 136 million yuan The city of Rigaze has invested 136 million yuan in this period alone. As of the end of 2002, Shigatse City, Sanjuzhi District road length of 39.1 kilometers, an area of 985,300 square meters, urban per capita road area of 30 square meters, 9 square meters more than the 2000 growth.
In 2002, the monthly sales volume of liquefied petroleum gas filling station in Shigatse City was 890 tons, and the daily supply volume reached 74.17 tons. The actual annual water supply of the old and new water plants in the city reached 4.38 million tons, of which the new water plant was built in 1995 with an investment of 45 million yuan by Shanghai Municipality. The post and telecommunication business also increased 313 times from 1959 and 13.5 times from 1994. Urban greening, during the Ninth Five-Year Plan, there was also a certain improvement, urban public **** green area of 33 hectares, 48 hectares of gardens, per capita green area of nearly 70 square meters according to the resident population of the Rikaze urban area. From 2008 to 2011, Rikaze **** complete 60,737 households of farmers and herdsmen housing project construction tasks, for which **** invested more than 4.6 billion yuan. 2012, Rikaze farmers and herdsmen housing project construction tasks for 18,806 households, the autonomous region invested more than 312 million yuan in subsidies have been fully in place. With financial support, 2008-2010 Rikaze completed 1429 village-level organization activity places construction, 2010-2011 completed 378 villages of rural human settlements construction and comprehensive improvement of the environment.
From 2008 to 2011, Rikaze invested more than 6 billion yuan in agriculture, forestry and water affairs, the implementation of urban and rural low income insurance, urban and rural medical assistance, urban and rural residents and monks and nuns social pension insurance, the new type of rural cooperative medical care, the three old people, orphans living allowances and other social security funds is expected to amount to more than 1.9 billion yuan, the implementation of the education "three packages
The social security funds for urban and rural residents, monks and nuns are expected to amount to more than 1.9 billion yuan, and the funds for the implementation of the "three packages" for education are expected to reach more than 850 million yuan.
In 2013, Rikaze invested 501 million yuan to complete 327 comprehensive improvement of rural habitat, 11,904 households of farmers and herdsmen housing projects, more than 30 villages to promote the whole village project, invested 174 million yuan to solve the problem of drinking water safety of 53,200 people and 293 temples; invested 323 million yuan, 4,338 households of electric power; to solve the problem of 33 townships, 148 To solve the problems of 33 townships, 148 formed villages and 58 formed villages, 120 temples access; built 9221 rural household biogas; completed all kinds of afforestation 227,000 mu. Rikaze radio and television "household pass" to speed up the implementation of the completion of the task 26,600 households, radio, television comprehensive coverage reached 97.94%, 96.09% respectively. At the end of 2002, Rikaze City, 18 counties (cities) **** there are 23 secondary schools, including 1 complete secondary schools, pure high school 2; county (city), townships, 217 elementary school, 729 teaching points, 1 secondary specialized schools, 1 kindergarten, the social forces to run the school (garden) 2. Rikaze elementary school enrollment of 85,936 people, junior high school enrollment of 18,481 people, high school enrollment of 3,443 people. Kindergarten in the park 750 people, social forces to run schools in school 321 students. The enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 90.42%, and the enrollment rate of junior high school reaches 34%. There are 1,440 middle school teaching staff and 3,304 elementary school teaching staff in Shigatse, with Tibetan teachers accounting for more than 90% of the total number of primary and secondary school teaching staff. By the end of 2002, 13 counties (cities) in Shigatse had realized the goal of universal six-year compulsory education, and the population coverage rate of "universal six" reached 78%.
In 2007 and 2008, Rikaze has fully completed the task of "literacy", "universal nine", "universal nine" population coverage reached 100%, young adults The illiteracy rate among young adults has dropped to less than 2%. By the end of 2009, Rikaze had been equipped with a CD-ROM broadcasting system for teaching and learning, and had established 235 viewing points, 78 computer classrooms, and 111 "class pass" teaching resource systems, with 44% of the townships' (townships') finished primary schools realizing the "class pass" of teaching resources. In October 1955, Rikaze People's Hospital was formally established, the early stage of the hospital only 45 medical personnel, 12 beds, with internal and external nine departments, which is the first formal hospital in Rikaze. 1959 since October each county (city) hospitals have also been established, 1972, the establishment of the regional school of health, with nurses, nurses, pharmacy, Tibetan medicine and other specialties, and has become the first to train medical professionals school. 1974, the first school of medicine professionals in the region. In 1974, the regional epidemic prevention station was also announced, and gradually carried out the ground armor, measles and other census, universal treatment, the establishment of a leprosy hospital, followed by the surface of the program of immunization and comprehensive prevention and control work.
1959 Rikaze **** have medical and health institutions 5, of which 2 city, county level 3, 55 beds, of which 45 city, county level 10, 82 health and technical personnel, an average of 0.18 beds per 1,000 people, per 1,000 people with health and technical personnel of 0.11 people, and at this point in time the level of health care is only in the low-level stage, only to carry out some routine medical treatment. The work.
In 1982, the Rikaze Tibetan Hospital was established, followed by the opening of the Nyalamu Tibetan Medicine Factory and the establishment of the Bianxiong Tibetan Medicine School, which was assisted by the Swiss Red Cross, and which played an active role in the development of national medicine and in solving the problem of the lack of medical care in rural and pastoral areas. 1983 saw the beginning of health law enforcement and supervision, and 1986 saw the beginning of maternal and child health care, and the gradual establishment of a new health care center under the auspices of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). With the assistance of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), grass-roots maternal and child health-care projects were gradually carried out in seven counties, including Gyantse.
In 2002, the coverage rate of cooperative medical care in Rikaze by county and township reached 100% and 95%, with participating farmers and herdsmen accounting for 78.08% of the total population of Rikaze's agricultural and herding areas; there were 19 epidemic-prevention institutions, 8 maternity and child care institutions, and 3 hospitals were recognized as "baby-friendly hospitals," and the maternal mortality rate dropped from 502 per 10,000 at the beginning of the liberation period to 502 per 10,000 in 2002; the rate of mortality for women in the early stages of the liberation period dropped from 1.5 per 100,000 in the early stages of the liberation period to 2.5 per 100,000 in the early stages of the liberation period. There are 19 epidemic prevention institutions, 8 maternity and child institutions, 3 hospitals are rated as "baby-friendly hospitals", the maternal mortality rate has dropped from 502 per 10,000 in the early period of liberation to 38.37 per 10,000 in 2002, the infant mortality rate has dropped from 430 per 10,000 in the early period of liberation to 25.49 per 10,000 in 2002, and the per capita life expectancy has risen from 35 to 67 in the early period of liberation, with a natural population growth rate of 8.59 per 10,000 in 2002. Tibetan medicine medicine, teaching, research and Tibetan medicine production system. 2002 Rikaze has 245 health institutions at all levels, 1,271 beds, 1,614 health technicians, respectively, higher than in 1959, 240 health institutions, 1,216 beds, 1,532 personnel.
In 2013, Rikaze implemented free health checkups for farmers and herdsmen and monks and nuns and medical treatment for children with congenital heart disease, completing medical checkups for farmers and herdsmen of 615,100 people and monks and nuns of 4,360 people, screening children with congenital heart disease of 89,100 people, confirming the diagnosis of 129 cases, and free surgery of 116 cases. Tibetan New Year: The Tibetan New Year is the traditional festival of the Tibetan people, and also the grandest festival. Shigatse celebrates both the "Farmer's Year" on December 1 of the Tibetan calendar and the Tibetan Year on January 1 of the Tibetan calendar.
Linka Festival: Strolling in Linka is a national custom formed by the Tibetan people according to the climate, environment and living conditions on the plateau. Formerly, in the half-month from May 1 to 15 of the Tibetan calendar every year, people came out of their courtyards to visit the shade-covered Rinka, which gradually became the Rinka Festival.
Dharma Festival: the Tibetan language for running horse archery. Initially popular in jangtse, many other places are also held. In the past, jangtse dama festival is held around April 19th of the Tibetan calendar every year. There are horse racing, test riding, jousting and other activities, but the main thing is to engage in the exhibition of Buddha, jumping god, sacrifices and other religious activities. Now Dama Festival time is held in June in the agricultural leisure.
Bathing Festival: "the sky flashes too white star, the earth river must please Langzhong" this everyone knows the words, refers to the Tibetan calendar in mid-July, too white star in the sky of Chamlang appeared a week, by the starlight irradiation of rivers, springs, streams and the water with the gathering of the eight virtues of the water. When the star flashes seven days, whether it is towns or rural pastoral areas, families with young and old, wine with meals to the river, go to the spring side of the drinking water, swimming, bathing, washing.
Wangguo Festival: Wangguo originated in ancient times, flourished in modern times, is to pray for a good harvest and activities held. Though the Wangguo is different from one place to another, its form and connotation are more or less the same. Before the start of the harvest, when farming is a little free, men and women of the village put on new clothes and monks together in a procession to tour the crop fields. The procession is led by good men and women holding incense, sutra streamers, scriptures, umbrellas, vases, tambourines, gongs and cymbals, trumpets and colorful arrows, with the whole village following behind. The procession travels in the southeast, northwest and north-west directions, offering sacrifices to the gods of each side. On the way, they keep blowing horns, shaking drums, chanting sutras, waving colorful arrows and shouting: "Chayuyi father show, yang yuyi father show" (Defu to come, good luck also to come), burning incense to offer to the village god, praying for a good harvest. After turning the crop field in the shade, eat and drink. After the horse race, yak race, singing Tibetan opera, dancing and other entertainment programs.
Bullfighting Festival: Bailang County Bullfighting Festival is held in August, when farmers and herdsmen from various villages gather together and bring their own bulls to enter the designated bullfighting arena, and then carry out bullfighting competitions in each township and village. Competition when the two bulls fighting difficult to distinguish, the scene is thrilling, heart-stopping, and ultimately the weak were toppled or fled to the end of the battle between the two bulls.