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Tibetans celebrate Serfs' Emancipation Day

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-03-28 15:25

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A flag-raising ceremony is held at Potala Palace Square, Lhasa, capital city of China's Tibet autonomous region, to celebrate the Serfs Emancipation Day on March 28, 2018. The annual Serfs Emancipation Day is held to commemorate the 1959 democratic reform in Tibet, which ended feudal serfdom and freed about one million Tibetan serfs. [Photo by Da Qiong/chinadaily.com.cn]

The 59th anniversary of Serfs' Emancipation Day was celebrated on Wednesday in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region. Serfs' Emancipation Day was established on March 28 by the regional legislature in 2009 to mark the start of Tibetan democracy, which ended the feudal serf system in 1959, freeing one million serfs, or 90 percent of the region's population at that time.

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