Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide has announced that the St. Regis Lhasa Resort will open in November 2010 as a green hotel.

Construction work has commenced on a power interconnection project that will go across the Tibetan Plateau and is intended to solve the problem of power shortages in Tibet.

News from a meeting of Tibet's Political Consultative Conference held in Lhasa is that Tibet plans to build 400 rural retail stores in the autonomous region's agricultural and pastoral areas to address the problems of the local population in purchasing commodities.

Tibet will take a range of measures to deal with the challenges and negative effects brought about by global warming.

Du Ying, the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, disclosed at a recent seminar that China will enhance the pilot program for the ecological environment compensation mechanism, in selected regions.

To ensure food safety for the tourism peak season and the Xuedun Festival in Tibet, De Ji, vice chairman of Tibetan Autonomous Region, led a team from the regional government, health department, public security bureau, department of industry and commerce, quality supervision department, and tourism bureau on an inspection of food markets in Lhasa.

A wind power base, which is said to be the world's largest joint development and parallel running wind power project, will be formally launched in Jiuquan, Gansu province on July 12, 2009.