page_title: Lhasa (prefecture-level city)
section_title: Other facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Lhasa (prefecture-level city) / Infrastructure / Other facilities
caption_attribution_description: 当雄站: Damxung station, Lhasa prefecture-level city.
context_page_description: Lhasa is a prefecture-level city, one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It covers an area of 29,274 square kilometres of rugged and sparsely populated terrain. Its capital and largest city is Lhasa, with around 300,000 residents, which mostly corresponds with the administrative Chengguan District, while its suburbs extend into Doilungdêqên District and Dagzê District. The consolidated prefecture-level city contains additional five, mostly rural, counties.
  The city boundaries roughly correspond to the basin of the Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. It lies on the Lhasa terrane, the last unit of crust to accrete to the Eurasian plate before the continent of India collided with Asia about 50 million years ago and pushed up the Himalayas. The terrane is high, contains a complex pattern of faults and is tectonically active. The temperature is generally warm in summer and rises above freezing on sunny days in winter. Most of the rain falls in summer.
context_section_description: The rural counties generally have numerous primary schools at the village level, with high levels of attendance, and at least one secondary school. 
  In 2010 there were 28 schools in Dagzê County, including one junior high school and one kindergarten.
  As of 2009 there were 37 primary and secondary school buildings in Damxung County.
  Maizhokunggar County has one high school, 14 full primary schools and 74 village schools.
  Nyêmo County has 24 primary and secondary schools, including one junior high school.
  As of 2002 Qüxü County had one County Middle School, and 18 primary schools.
  Outside Lhasa most of the Tibetans do not understand the Chinese language, so Tibetan is the natural language for basic instruction. However, this may be affected by the availability of teachers and the preference of the local administration.
  As of 2003 the former bilingual mode of instruction had been changed to giving instruction in Chinese in some of the counties near Lhasa. 
  Examination results were already poor in subjects such as mathematics and physics. Marks dropped further after the change.
  Some of the township seats have a small clinic. Most have only a health station. 
  There were seven hospitals in Damxung in 2009, including a county hospital, with a total of 40 beds.
  The first drug rehabilitation center in Tibet was being constructed in Duilongdeqing County in 2009. It was planned to provide physiological rehabilitation, psychological therapy and job training for up to 150 drug addicts.
  Lhünzhub County has 23 health care establishments, including a County People's Hospital with 30 beds.
  Maizhokunggar has been selected as a Cooperative Medical System experimental site, which has resulted in a very high percentage of people with health care coverage.
  Nyêmo County has a county hospital with 42 medical staff, eight rural health centers and 26 village clinics.
  The local television stations are Xizang TV (XZTV) and Lhasa Broadcasting and Television Center.
  Lhünzhub County has a local radio and television station. TV coverage is received by 72.1% of the population, and radio by 83.4% of the population.
  In Maizhokunggar County television is available to 36% of the population and radio to 48%.
  There is a county television station in Nyêmo County.
  As of 2002 in Qüxü County 98% of the population received radio coverage and 94% received television.
  In 2015 there were 359,000 fixed line telephone subscribers in the whole of Tibet.
  The rugged high-altitude terrain makes it expensive to provide telecommunications services.
  The first mobile phone service was launched in 1993 with just one base station in Lhasa, and as late as 2005 mobile phones were expensive status symbols. Since then both mobile phones and internet usage have grown fast.
  As of 1996 the sole prison (jianyu) for judicially-sentenced political prisoners in Tibet was TAR Prison No. 1, also called Drapchi Prison after the neighborhood in Lhasa where it stands. It is for men serving sentences of five or more years. There is a labor camp (laogai) in Lhasa for men serving shorter sentences.
  There are various other institutions where prisoners from Lhasa shi are held while they are being investigated, or where they undergo reform-through-labor.
caption: Damxung railway station
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