# Tibet
Latest news and articles about Tibet
Total: 8 articles found
China Shows Drone-Mounted Gun in Tibet Drill, Signaling New Low-Cost Firepower for High-Altitude Warfare
Chinese state media released footage of a drone fitted with a gun firing during motorized troop exercises in Tibet, signaling an operational push to integrate armed UAVs into high-altitude combined-arms tactics. The demonstration highlights both the PLA’s interest in cost-effective, distributed firepower and the technical limits and countermeasures that such systems will provoke.
China’s Regional Shift: Tibet’s Surge and Chongqing’s Overtake Signal a New Economic Map
Provincial GDP releases for 2025 reveal a subtle but meaningful reshaping of China’s economic map: Tibet led growth on the back of large infrastructure projects, Gansu expanded through resource-driven industry, and Chongqing overtook Liaoning in total GDP thanks to a booming new-energy vehicle cluster. The data underline a continuing shift of momentum from the north-east’s old industrial base to the south-west and interior, driven by state investment, resource cycles and industrial upgrading.
China’s Provincial Scorecard 2025: Tibet’s Surge, Coastal Giants Slow and the Interior’s Investment Gamble
China’s 2025 provincial GDP results reveal a polarized regional economy: Tibet topped growth through heavy investment and a low base, a set of provinces consolidated high growth and scale, while several established and resource-heavy regions lagged. The figures highlight rising concentration among top provinces, persistent dependence on investment in parts of the interior, and continuing structural challenges in the northeast and energy provinces.
Cold-Weather Drills Across China Signal Focus on Year-Round Combat Readiness
Chinese military and paramilitary units have carried out winter training across multiple theatres—testing air-defence, mobility, medical evacuation and small-unit tactics under severe weather. The exercises aim to eliminate seasonal readiness gaps, sharpen high-altitude and cold-weather skills, and publicly demonstrate sustained operational capability.
Soldier-Teachers on the Himalayan Edge: How PLA Tutoring Bolsters Schools and State Presence in Tibet
A Tibet Military District unit has piloted a “one soldier, one household” tutoring programme in a Lhoba village that pairs well‑educated soldiers with schoolchildren for weekend home visits, homework help and civic activities. The initiative has improved academic outcomes, deepened civil‑military ties and been institutionalised as part of a broader national‑defence education push in a strategic border region.
Soldiers as Teachers: PLA Unit Tutors Children and Tightens Bonds in Tibet’s Border Villages
A PLA border unit in Tibet has been running a multi-year education and civic-engagement programme, providing one-on-one tutoring, national-defence instruction and household assistance in a remote Looba (Luoba) village. The initiative has improved student performance and local livelihoods while deepening civil–military links and patriotic socialisation in a sensitive border area.
From Revolutionary Roots to High‑Altitude Fighting: Inside the PLA’s ‘Red Ninth’ Push to Modernise on the Tibetan Plateau
A PLA company in Tibet known as the Red Ninth fused its 99‑year revolutionary heritage with modern high‑altitude combat training, testing new vehicles, drones and information systems while producing its own doctrine. The exercise underscores Beijing’s focus on integrating legacy political cohesion with technological modernisation in strategically sensitive terrain.
From Red Roots to High-Altitude Strike Units: How a 99‑Year‑Old PLA Company is Rebranding Tradition for Modern War
A century‑old PLA company based in Tibet is pairing its revolutionary lineage with rapid operational modernisation, transforming symbolic rituals into practical high‑altitude combat readiness. By improvising manuals, integrating drones and networking new vehicles, the unit illustrates the PLA’s wider push to fuse tradition with informationised, system‑level capabilities.