BEIJING -- Five decades after the Tibet Autonomous Region was created, the Chinese government is trumpeting economic development in an effort to check Tibetans' resentment over their lack of religious and other freedoms.

In a bid to bolster its influence, China in 2006 opened a railway linking Qinghai Province with the Tibet Autonomous Region.
BEIJING -- Five decades after the Tibet Autonomous Region was created, the Chinese government is trumpeting economic development in an effort to check Tibetans' resentment over their lack of religious and other freedoms.