A ranking official of Tibetan origin rejects foreign media reports of "ethnic Han people's (or Chinese) assimilation of Tibet" as "absurdity", noting that ethnic Tibetans have always made up over ...

By the end of 2001, the Tibet Autonomous Region had a population of 2.63 million, of which 92.2 percent were Tibetans, 5.9 percent were Han people, while other ethnic peoples accounted for 1.9 ...

There are some 60 languages spoken on the Tibetan Plateau. But harsh Chinese policies mean many minority languages may not be passed down to future generations.