A telecommunications facility was recently opened in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to provide fast communications between Lhasa and Beijing and other parts of China.

This four-storey building provides telephone, telegraph and an international telephone service. Among the personnel are technicians, operators and workers of Tibetan nationality trained by the Posts and Telecommunications Institutes in Beijing and Nanjing and the Tibet Institute for Nationalities.

A postal and telephone network now covers every county and most small towns in Tibet. In the old, pre-liberation Tibet there was only one small, often unreliable postal and telephone service run by foreigners for use by a few officials and nobles.

(This article appears on page 27, No. 17, 1979)