Encircling the Jokhang Monastery,the street is 600 meters long,lined on both sides with shops abd stalls,it offers an abundance of typical Tibetan daily necessities,handrcraft arti9cles and goods for pilgrims,and empties the purses of many tourists. Therefore,many clever Tibetan women choose it as their market. Pema,27,has had her shop on Barkhor Street for six years. In addition to typical Tibetan commodities,she sells beautiful Southeast Asian products that she buys in Zham port,where she travels twice a year. With a superb collection of goods,her shops is booming.
Commercial activities extend the scope of Tibetan women's economic activity.
The exchange of urban and rural commoditites not only activates the market,but also trains a generation of Tibetan businesswomen,with townswomen contacting the countryside and herdswomen and women peathe towns. Her useless volume has expanded from several thousand to more than 100,000 yuan. According to statistics, 55. 1 percent of the 4,937 self- employed industrialists and businessmen in Chengguan District of Lhasa are women, tibetan businesswomen can also be seen I Xigaze, Zham port Nyingchi and Nagqu. You can even find women involved in international useless negotiations held in Tibet, Rinchen Choedom is an interpreter at the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation 'apartment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 1991 she radiated with high Darks from the College of Social Sciences t the University of Vancouver in Canada.