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Officials from Heilongjiang Province Evgenii Dadonov Panthers Jersey , who were sent to assist development of Tibet Autonomous Region, talk with local residents. Photo: IC
Xie Xiao (pseudonym), 38, felt a strong sense of alienation after a week in Beijing. The streets and alleys of her childhood memories are nothing like they used to be. The city is now a strange metropolis that makes her feel cramped and lost.


Later, Xie, a civil servant in the Lhasa environmental protection bureau in the Tibet Autonomous Region Authentic Jared McCann Jersey , went back to Lhasa.


"Lhasa is at 3,650 meters above sea level, but I don't get headaches or have problems breathing like I did on the Beijing subway," she said.


Xie moved to Tibet from Beijing with her parents when she was 13. She spoke no Tibetan language and suffered from altitude sickness at first. But it didn't take long for her to adapt.


With flushed cheeks and fluent Tibetan, she looks just like a Tibetan. She said she belongs to the group of "second generation Tibetans."


Sixty-five years ago, during the peaceful liberation of Tibet Authentic Jamie McGinn Jersey , hundreds and thousands of the People's Liberation Army soldiers and logistic staff arrived at Tibet. Most of them were sent by the central government to assist Tibet, becoming the first generation of Han officials to migrate to Tibet after 1949.


Their children, growing up in different prefectures of Tibet with Tibetan friends, have been given the name "second generation Tibetans" by local people. Some of them left Tibet after growing up or graduating from college, but many stayed and settled down. In 1994, the central government formally started another aid program Authentic Radim Vrbata Jersey , under which every prefecture in Tibet will be paired with a province from around China, with officials from the province sent to work there.


But unlike the first generation of cadres, most officials coming to Tibet after 1994 don't settle down here.


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