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New Tibet chief stresses reform
Reform and opening up are essential to Tibet's prosperity, the new chairman of the autonomous region said yesterday. Losang Gyaltsen, a former mayor of Lhasa, once taught Marxist theory, according to his official biography. "He's rather hardline, but all officials at that level are the same," said prominent Tibetan writer Woeser. "There will be no real change in Tibet." Xinhua, Reuters 
 
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Reform and opening up are essential to Tibet's prosperity, the new chairman of the autonomous region said yesterday. Losang Gyaltsen, a former mayor of Lhasa, once taught Marxist theory, according to his official biography.
