(XINHUA)

Performers in traditional Tibetan costume dance in celebration of the Serfs Emancipation Day in Xigaze Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on March 28.

The Serfs Emancipation Day commemorates the 1959 democratic reform in Tibet, which ended the feudal serfdom and freed about 1 million Tibetan serfs, accounting for more than 90 percent of the region's population at the time.

On January 19, 2009, the regional people's congress decided to set March 28 as the Serfs Emancipation Day to commemorate the historic event and celebrate Tibetan people's freedom.