Photos   Guangdong's guardian of Nyingchi

Nyingchi in Tibet, China, features low elevation, humid climate, and rich natural resources. Yet, in ancient times, it was once an exile destination due to its dense mountains, forests, and rivers, along with the lack of large barley fields, making it seem uninhabitable to Tibetans. However, thousands of years later, more and more people from Guangdong have moved to Nyingchi for business, employment, tourism, and settling down. They view it as the "Snowy Jiangnan"(south of the Yangtze River region). From 1995 to 2023, the GDP of Nyingchi increased nearly a hundredfold. Statistics showed that in 2023, Nyingchi had the highest per capita GDP among all cities in Tibet.

A while ago, Yao Yongwen, a Guangdong teacher supporting Tibet, intervened before China's national college entrance examination ("gaokao") to help two senior high school brothers. Their grandfather was paralyzed, and with their parents busy herding livestock, the family needed the brothers to drop out of school to care for him. Understanding the difficulty of the situation, especially their hardship to be admitted into a key senior high school in Tibet, Yao Yongwen and a few other teachers decided to cover a few months wages to hire a caregiver, allowing the students to focus on their exams. The effort paid off as both brothers scored above the key line for applying to universities. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has thrived on this land through faith, hope, and the power of mutual support and vigilance.

At Nyingchi First Senior High School, the reporter encountered several individuals: a young Monpa student who, after finishing his exams, was unwilling to go home and stayed in the school library to study by himself. A Tibetan woman who, just after coming out of surgery while still under anesthesia, struggled to clasp her hands in thanks to the doctor. A young Lhoba boy who, in addition to herding, had learned to cultivate Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb. A Tibetan driver named Dorjee went to pick cherries at the Mainling farm for the first time.

Xiao Liang, from Guangzhou, joined China's Far West Program and came to Nyingchi after graduating from university. He said that the place was different from what he had imagined and, in some aspects, even more appealing than Guangzhou. As a result, he stayed in Nyingchi. Like Liang, more and more people are coming to Nyingchi for business, employment, tourism, and settling down. Here, they see landscapes that are different from, and sometimes even better than, those of their hometowns.

Since humans discovered the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it has somehow become a sacred route to dreams in people's hearts. For centuries, countless souls have spined prayer wheels and touched mani stones, searching for peace, serenity, and eternity.

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廣東人的“林芝守望”

中國西藏的林芝，這塊海拔低氣候溼潤自然資源豐沛的寶地在古代是流放之地，因爲這裡山地森林河流密集，沒有大片青稞田，在古代藏人看來，這裡就不適合生存。可是幾千年後，越來越多廣東人來到林芝經商、就業、旅遊、安家，在他們看來，這裡就是雪域江南。從1995年到2023年，林芝地區生產總值漲了近百倍，據統計，2023年西藏各地市人均GDP中，林芝市排名第一。

前陣子，廣東援藏教師姚勇文在高考前攔住了同上高三的兩兄弟，他們的爺爺癱瘓了，父母忙着放牧，家裡要他們輟學回家照顧爺爺。兩兄弟考上西藏自治區重點高中不容易，眼看着勸說就要失敗，姚勇文和幾個老師一商量，乾脆自己墊上幾個月的工資，幫他們請個護工照顧病人，讓學生安心高考。沒有辜負姚勇文的期待，高考放榜，兄弟倆全都上了重點線！幾千年來，中華民族在這塊大陸上生生不息，靠的就是信念、希望，和守望相助的力量。

在林芝市一中，記者見到了考完試還不肯回家、留在學校圖書館自學的門巴族少年；見到了剛推出手術室麻藥還沒過、就掙扎着向醫生雙手合十的藏族阿媽；見到了放牧之餘學會了種植中藥川貝母的珞巴族小夥；見到了第一次去米林農場裡摘櫻桃的藏族司機多吉……

廣州人小樑，大學畢業後報名西部計劃來到林芝，他說，這裡和他想象中的不一樣，甚至在某些方面，有比廣州更吸引他的地方，所以，他想留下來。和小樑一樣，越來越多人來到林芝經商、就業、旅遊、安家，在這裡，他們看到了和故土不一樣甚至更好的風景。

自從人類發現了這塊土地——青藏高原，不知爲什麼，就成了人們心中通往夢境的必由之路。千百年來，無數顆心撥動轉經筒、觸摸瑪尼堆，試圖在這裡尋找寧靜、平和，和永恆。

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