On Serfs Emancipation Day, celebration, recollection, and wishes from across China

Source: Xinhua | 03-30-2009 08:02

LHASA/BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The first Serfs Emancipation Day was celebrated across Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday, while people from elsewhere in China expressed their wishes to the Tibetans.

Tibetan people in traditional dress celebrate the first  Serfs Emancipation Day at home in Qamdo, southwest China's  Tibet Autonomous Region, March 28, 2009. (Xinhua/He Junchang)

CELEBRATION ACROSS TIBET

In Lhasa, readers of the broadsheet Tibet Daily and Tibet Economic Daily found that Saturday's edition of both newspapers became thicker--special issues were published to introduce the changes since democratic reform in 1959.