Xizang's Women As Driver Of Development

Today marks a special occasion in China's Xizang — the Serfs' Emancipation Day. This day commemorates March 28, 1959, when democratic reforms were carried out in Xizang, ushering in a modern social system. Over the past 66 years, the transformation of Tibetan women's social status has been one of the most representative chapters in China's human rights progress. The archaic legal code of old Xizang, which once absurdly stated that "a woman's life was worth no more than a rope of straw," has long become a relic of the past.