Recently, Baigyi was appointed as the chief choreographer for the upcoming dance show to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. She is now discussing the dancing music with the DJ in the studio.

To help train young Tibetan dancers perform as well as she did, she has now added teacher to her repertoire, to pass on to students all that she has learnt and invented in her 30 year dance career. She sincerely wants to help Tibetan dance flourish further into the future.

Tibet really changes a lot, especially in regards to women and jobs. Women are taking jobs that were previously predominately for men.

Qiumei is the first woman in Tibet to get a doctoral degree in agricultural science. She is an expert in livestock research and raising. Yak, of course, is her specialty. Many of her research papers have received awards from different academic bodies. She has applied those advanced theories and methodologies that she picked up from the outside to aid in the raising of Yak here in Tibet.

During her doctoral studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Qiumei got the opportunity to travel to the International Potato Center in Peru to prepare for her dissertation. She stayed there for two years, overcame many difficulties, and finally got her doctoral degree in 2002.

Her work is not merely limited to the laboratory. It involves a lot of hard field work.

The forefathers of the Tibetan plateau domesticated the yaks, and in return the yaks have become their only major livestock. The close relationship of yaks to the life of the Tibetan people has raised the importance of Qiumei’s work.

She even has to measure the yak on her own.

Zholgar is a beneficiary of the reform and opening-up policies. She has become the richest lady in her village as she makes around 60,000 to 70,000 yuan annually out of yak raising and rice planting.

With the money she has earned, she no longer lives in poverty, even building this large and bright home. As a Buddhist, she never forgets her fellow villagers in poverty. using her extra money to help them. She even paid the medical bills of one old man in her village.

The old man is not the only one in her village to receive help from Zholgar. She also once helped a widow here build houses.

Zholgar also pays the living expenses for two of her children who go to high school.

Dezhen is an artist as well as a teacher in a local Tibetan blind school. She teaches her students to appreciate different colors by touching and feeling them. In 1997, Dezhen graduated from the department of fine arts at Tibet University. Since then, she began her creative career, becoming a successful Tibetan artist. Undoubtedly, her success in painting is partly attributed to her works in the blind school.

Dezhen’s paintings reflect a mixture of the traditional and modern. Because she has integrated them both with such style, she has received many awards in many competitions. Her work is mainly focused on Tibetan women. Recently she has painted many of the local Tibetan women and children in the rural areas.