Tibet is like an endless book to read for Wang Xiaobin, associate researcher with China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, who has experienced the snowy plateau for over 20 years and is ready to devote to Tibetology research all his life.

"My impression of Tibet before was all from the geography textbook," Wang Xiaobin said. In 1990, when he graduated from the Shanxi Normal University at his hometown Linfen City of Shanxi Province, he actively responded the call of his country to support the border areas.

Wang Xiaobin began to experience Tibet when he stepped on the mysterious land and taught in a middle school in Chamdo Prefecture. "I have gradually learned about the history, culture and customs in Tibet, which was only a kind of general knowledge", he said.

After several years'work in Tibet, Wang Xiaobin felt he should learn more about Tibet and pursue a higher degree. In 1997, he was enrolled by the Party School of the Central Committee of CPC in Beijing and started a six-year study for postgraduate and doctoral degrees.

"My life was changed after my tutor advised me to take up Tibetology research," Wang Xiaobin said.

In these years, Wang Xiaobin focused on the research of Tibet policies of the Communist Party of China. Immersed in the sea of historic books, he also got a better understanding of the history of Tibet.

However, he often faced difficulties during his Tibetology research. At that time he had no textbooks and had to collect materials all by himself through interviews with Tibetan cadres.

"The working and life experience in Tibet helped me a lot," he said. Besides getting familiar with Tibet, he could also speak and read basic Tibetan language. Sometimes he spoke Tibetan so well that he was regarded as a Tibetan.

In 2005, after working in Tibet for another two years, Wang Xiaobin was transferred to the China Tibetology Research Center, the top Tibetology institute in China, where he started an in-depth Tibetology research.

Every year Wang Xiaobin played an important part in writing research reports and official documents after taking field surveys in Tibet, and wrote many works in Tibetology research.

He was engaged in the drafting of Sixty Years Since Peaceful Liberation of Tibet; and also published a few books on the research of Tibet policies of CPC.

"Tibet has made remarkable progress in protection, inheritance and development of Tibetan culture," Wang Xiaobin said. "However, some Western forces and the Dalai clique always find faults with China's policies whenever something happened in Tibet."

For example, the face-lift project of Lhasa is under way with an investment of 1.5 billion yuan to protect the old urban area, which was started on December of 2012.
As the project is about to be finished this June, a report of Radio Free Asia (RFA) on May 17 claimed the project as "an attempt to destroy Tibetans' "living connection" to their past.

And the Tibet government in exile, or Central Tibetan Administration, said it is transforming Lhasa's central Jokhang temple and the Barkhor, or Old City, around it into a "superficial tourist spot.", according to RFA.

"I just came back from Lhasa a few days ago. I saw the face-lift project well observe the principle of 'keeping the original appearance of cultural relics'," Wang Xiaobin said.

The Barkhor Street is the most important pilgrimage route for Tibetans as well as a time-honored cultural heritage.

"The top priority is to protect those cultural relics in Lhasa including the Barkhor Street, which are full of ethnic features and well integrated with tourism." Wang Xiaobin said.

"In fact, the West addresses too much about the issues of religious freedom and cultural protection in Tibet, but they just turn a blind eye to all these good deeds，which will actually do good to the cultural protection," Wang Xiaobin said. "They just need an excuse to criticize China’s policies in Tibet and make everything politicized."

As a scholar, Wang Xiaobin often goes abroad for cultural exchanges and study tours. He hopes he will let more people know the real Tibet and rich research findings on Tibet.

"Whenever I go to a foreign country, I would like to show the real Tibet to the people there through research findings, historical data as well as facts and figures," he said.

Just as learning is an endless process, Wang Xiaobin thinks he still has a long way to go in Tibetology research.