"We focus on the four major issues of stability, development, ecology, and border strengthening, and strive to build a national model area for national unity and progress, a pilot area for high-quality economic development on the plateau, a highland of national ecological civilization, and a national demonstration area for strengthening borders and revitalizing people, so as to vigorously promote long-term stability and high-quality development." Yan Jinhai, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Xizang Autonomous Region, said at a series of news conferences on the theme of "Promoting high-quality development" held by the National Information Office on the 23rd. Yan Jinhai introduced that since the "14th Five Year Plan", Xizang's GDP has increased from about 190 billion yuan to nearly 240 billion yuan last year. The growth rate of per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents has remained at the forefront of the country for many years, and efforts have been made to create a new path for high-quality development of the plateau economy. The main line is to strengthen the sense of community of the Chinese nation. Xizang closely adheres to safeguarding the reunification of the motherland and strengthening national unity, and has issued the Regulations on the Establishment of a Model Area for National Unity and Progress in the Xizang Autonomous Region. "At present, the creation of a model area for ethnic unity and progress has achieved full coverage of autonomous regions, cities, counties, townships, and villages (communities), with extensive exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, jointly safeguarding the sacred land and building a happy home." Yan Jinhai said. Adhere to adapting measures to local conditions and shape high-quality development characteristics and advantages. Xizang, based on its resource endowments and its own development conditions, has continued to expand its cultural tourism, featured agriculture and animal husbandry, high-tech digital, Tibetan medicine and other distinctive industries, and accelerated the cultivation of emerging industries such as light industry on the plateau. Yan Jinhai said, "Last year, Xizang received 55.17 million tourists from home and abroad, with a total tourism revenue of 65.1 billion yuan, up 83.7% and 60% respectively year on year, both of which hit a new record." Adhering to the people centered development philosophy, Tibet managed to ensure the people's wellbeing. "We have vigorously improved infrastructure conditions such as water, electricity, roads, communication, and housing, and the lives of people of all ethnic groups have undergone tremendous changes from buckets to water pipes, oil lamps to electric lamps, dirt roads to oil roads, felt houses to tiled houses." Yan Jinhai introduced. Adhere to the principle of prioritizing ecological protection and polishing the bright background of high-quality development. At present, the area of nature reserves in the Xizang Autonomous Region accounts for 36% of the region's land area, and the area of ecological protection red line accounts for more than 50%. The results of the second Qinghai Tibet scientific expedition indicate that the total water volume of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau exceeds 9 trillion cubic meters, equivalent to the annual runoff of the Yellow River for 150 years and the Yangtze River for 10 years. The Qinghai Tibet Plateau has achieved overall carbon neutrality. Persist in revitalizing the border and enriching the people, expanding opening up, and expanding the vast space for high-quality development. "We continue to improve public services and infrastructure construction in border areas, deepen opening up and cooperation, and more and more Xizang products have gone down the plateau, out of the country and into the world," Yan Jinhai said. Yan Jinhai said that Xizang will firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, constantly expand effective investment, speed up consumption, improve quality and upgrade, vigorously develop characteristic industries, strive to write a new chapter in the practice of Chinese path to modernization in Xizang, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation. (Lai Xin She)