"I'm so happy to hear this news. The express corridor would save so much time. Our two newly chosen foreign players might be able to play in the new season," said Liang Junchao, general manager of Lhasa Pure Land Men's Basketball Club, the first professional basketball team in Tibet. 

Tibet will start a new foreign workers' work permit system from April 1st, 2017 along with the rest of China, according to the region’s Human Resource and Social Security Bureau.  

The "Foreign Worker's Work Permit" is a valid legal document for foreign workers in China, in a move to realize one permanent number for each person. 

The work permit system is designed to further remove obstacles in the current management system, such as overlapping and scattered work functions, multiple management processesand lack of communication, etc.  

It will greatly reduce related procedures and shorten processing time. In addition, an "Express Corridor" will be added for high-end foreign talents in China, including their application of work permit, according to Zhao Yunhua from the Human Resource and Social Security Bureau of TAR.

He adds that the system will use the "notify and promise" system to expedite the process for high-end foreign talents who have no criminal records. 

There are almost 200 foreign workers in Tibet in the fields of education, scientific research, technology, management, restaurant and entertaining, business management, and the hair and makeup industry, etc., and most of them are from Nepal, India, and South Korea.