Dola is in meditation in the fields on March 17. Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one to get loan under his own name and later on bought a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze. Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola(3rd left) shares with young people how he started his business, at the agricultural machinery sales station, on Feb. 27. Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze. Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola chats with drivers at the fields, on March 17. Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola stands beside his first truck bought with loans under his personal name, on March 18. Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Group photos of Dola(3rd right) and his relatives on March 18. Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola (middle) checks performances of the machines he sold to farmers from his machinery station on March 17. Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola owns the biggest machinery sale station in Tibet.Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.[Photo/Xinhua]

Dola walks on the desert land in Qushui, Lhasa, saying that he wants to regulate the machinery selling business in Lhasa by establishing a market in Qushui.Dola is the owner of a machinery sale station.Being a son of a serf, Dola was born in 1967, 8 years after the system of serfdom was abolished in Tibet in 1959. Dola has many titles, the first tract driver in his village, the first one in Shigatze who borrows a loan under his own name to buy a Jie Fang truck and the first one to own a Dong Feng truck in Shigatze.Now he owns the biggest machinery sales station of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua]