[4] Wildlife includes roe deer, otter, brown bear, leopard, black-necked crane, Chinese caterpillar fungus, Fritillaria and snow lotus.

[2] Military personnel have been involved in efforts to protect and improve the environment, including replanting programs.

It would provide physiological rehabilitation, psychological therapy and job training for up to 150 drug addicts.

[7] Duilongdeqing County was founded in September 1959, and in February 1960 expanded to include the western suburbs of Lhasa.

In January 2015 the former county government was preparing to upgrade Doilungdêqên into Lhasa's second urban district.

After reform and an open policy were adopted, growing numbers began to move into industry, construction, transport, commerce and more skilled occupations.

[10] In the mid-1980s many local factories and processing plants were built at the village level, but most of them failed to survive.

[12] The terminus of the Qinghai–Tibet line, it is over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) above sea level, and is its largest passenger transport station.

[13] The best-known landmark is Tsurphu Monastery, built in 1189 and treated as a regional cultural relic reserve.

[3] The monastery was founded by Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama, founder of Karma Kagyu school.

[8] A prehistoric site was found in 2007 in a location where sand was being quarried at Chang Village in Yabda Township at 3,642 metres (11,949 ft) above sea level, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Lhasa.

A layer about 15 to 30 centimetres (5.9 to 11.8 in) thick contained charcoal, ash, animal bones, pottery and stone tools.