Chinese settlement

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Chinese settlements are communities built by China in territory occupied during and after the 1950 People's Liberation Army invasion of Tibet.

The colonization of the occupied area has been a pattern of urbanization. In central and western Tibet (U'Tsang) Chinese towns have been created in the middle of a still-Tibetan countryside. A news report of April 1996 stated that 500,000 Chinese were to be moved into eastern Tibet to work in copper mines, a project that was to involve the building of several new mining towns. [1]

Chinese settlers now dominate the economy of Tibet. Chinese control of Tibet is being consolidated by the assimilation of the Tibetan people and economy into China, with the aim of transforming Tibet into a Chinese province.

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