Wide streets are seen in Kesong Village, the first to implement the democratic reform in 1959, in Changzhu Town, Naidong County, Lhoka Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

Kesong Village in Changzhu Town, Naidong County, Lhoka Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, was the first to implement democratic reform in 1959 and has witnessed vast changes in the past decades.

Kesong Village was previously exclusively called home by serf owner, Suokang Wangqing Geli, before the democratic reform. But now it has become home to many new residents, with wide streets and brand-new residential buildings.

The historical site of the first village party branch of the Communist Party of China in Tibet, southwest of China, is listed as the officially protected monuments and sites. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

A file photo of the land ownership certificate emancipated from around a million serfs back in the democratic reform of Tibet in 1959. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

A residential house decorated with both modern and ancient cultural elements in Kesong Village in Changzhu Town, Naidong County, Lhoka Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

Local residents have a chat in a modern-style community in Kesong Village in Changzhu Town, Naidong County, Lhoka Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

                                                                                                                              Editor: Lily Li