China calls attention to region's growth as resentment simmers

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In a bid to bolster its influence, China in 2006 opened a railway linking Qinghai Province with the Tibet Autonomous Region.

OKI NAGAI, Nikkei staff writer

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.

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