Gallery: ancient road and changes of transport in Tibet

http://www.gov.cn/english/special/2006-06/30/content_324017.htm

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Undated file photo shows a salt-fetching team [of a group of yaks - tmc] marches on their way in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The salt-fetch teams, consisting of twenty to thirty people and some five hundred yaks, started its long journey at the end of winter every year. It took them several months to go to salt lakes and carried salt back to every family. [...] [Xinhua Photo]

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Undated file photo shows a tea-carrying team [of some 40-60 mules - tmc] marches on their way in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. As Tibetan people keep the traditional habit of drinking tea, tea had been carried into Tibet with mules for many years. [...] [Xinhua Photo]



File photo taken in the year 1950 shows Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) walk on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with [several thousands - tmc] camels carrying goods and materials. [Xinhua Photo]

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