Since the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951, China has attached unprecedented importance to the protection and development of Tibetan culture, which have reaped fruitful results.

The Central government has made huge efforts to promote the learning, use and development of the Tibetan language. The Autonomous Region has established teaching method and teaching material system of Tibetan language, which is widely used and popularized in primary and middle schools in Tibet.

The Autonomous has 14 Tibetan magazines, 10 Tibetan newspapers, a Tibetan satellite TV channel that operate 24 hours a day and a Tibetan radio broadcast.

In 1997, an international-standard Tibetan character code was approved, making the Tibetan script the first ethnic-minority script in China with an international standard.

In the past six decades, the central government has accumulatively invested more than 1 billion yuan to maintain cultural relics such as the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple.

A total of 61 cultural heritages such as traditional handicraft, folk fine arts and Tibetan Opera are now in the national protection list of intangible cultural heritages, 53 intangible cultural heritage inheritors have been selected into the national list for representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects.

The Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka were listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and Tibetan Opera and the Epic of King Gesar were included in the World Intangible Heritage List.