The Tibetan farmers have a bumper harvest and they reap the highland barley with modern machinery. [Photo/China Tibet Online]

The Chinese government issued a white paper on "Development and Progress in Tibet on Oct. 22, 2013, which shows the region's development since the peaceful liberation in 1951 based on numerous accurate data and absolute facts. Lian Xiangming, a scholar of Tibetology writes the Tibet's development and Dalai Clique's doom in Chinese, discussing about the change of Tibet and doomed failure of the Dalai Clique. The following paragraphs are mainly translated from his article.

The historic change over the past 60-plus years in Tibet comes from the social and historical environment, and has its roots in China's progress in a larger context. Facts proved that the fate of Tibet has always been closely linked to China, and as part of China, Tibet has the right to expect a better future in the way of following the general pattern of national social reform.

In the early 1950s, the population in Tibet was about one million, of which the Tibetan people took overwhelming majority. 95 percent of the people were serfs and slaves while the rest 5 percent were nobles, senior monks and their agents, who were also the serf owners. The former serfs and slaves leeched on to the serf owners and the latter privileged stratum dominated the former ones.

Over the past six decades, the population of Tibet has risen from one million to three million and the Tibetans have always stayed above 90 percent. The life expectancy at birth in Tibet has extended from the age of 36 to 67. The privileged stratum has disappeared in the new Tibet. All of these occur because nothing but the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet launched a seeping democratic reform in 1959 to overthrow Tibet's feudal serfdom system under theocracy that had been in place for hundreds of years, ushering in a social reform that was considered the most extensive, profound and progressive in Tibetan history.

The democratic reform established with the help of Chinese government liberated all the serfs and slaves, and brought the basic human rights of equity and freedom to the Tibetan people for the first time in history. The democratic reform laid the necessary economic, political and social foundation for the region's future development and progress.

Finally, the Tibet Autonomous Region was founded in 1965, and the systems of the people's congress and regional ethnic autonomy were established, which marked the historic turning point for Tibetan society from a feudal serfdom under theocracy to socialism, with the people becoming their own masters. That is to say, whether the former serfs and slaves, or the feudal aristocrats, they all became modern citizens who enjoy equal rights and exercise their political rights to equally participate in the management of state affairs and the affairs of their local ethnic groups autonomously based on the establishment of the new political system and the dissemination of ideas on democratic politics.

Today Tibetans are working hard to improve their own life. They have decent jobs, fully-covered social security and social assistance systems, nine-year compulsory education and freedom of religious belief. In this way, the Tibetan people have been greatly motivated to use their enthusiasm and creativity to build a better future.

However, after the failure of armed rebellion in 1959, the Dalai Lama and his clique have conducted separatist activities for a long time in many forms to sabotage Tibet's development and stability. In recent years, they have put forward the so-called concepts of "Greater Tibet" and "high-degree autonomy" which obviously go against the actual condition in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama has been away from Tibet for a long time and he has no idea about the real situation in this place. The fact that Tibet needs development instead of turbulence is deliberately ignored by the Dalai clique.

Any person who really cares about Tibet will be pleased to see the changes and will be full of amazement when they see the development of Tibet with their own eyes.

Then the aim of Dalai clique is clearly exposed, they want to "overthrow the socialist system and the system of regional ethnic autonomy that is practiced in Tibet," according to the white paper.

The Dalai Lama should think deeply about which path to follow in the future. He might as well take a look at Tibet's social development and think about what the Tibetans really want at present.