国内英语资讯:Tibetan cultural delegation highlights education, gender equality during Belgium visit_时事

国内英语资讯:Tibetan cultural delegation highlights education, gender equality during Belgium visit

BRUSSELS, June 22 -- Tibetan girls enjoy the same rights as their male peers in education, jobs and other aspects of the society, members of a Tibetan cultural exchange delegation from China told participants of the meeting on Thursday in the Belgian city of Huy.

"In fact, in most Tibetan families, parents usually favor daughters, and often see them as inheritors of the family," said Gama Danba, deputy secretary-general of the Tibetan Association for International Cultural Exchange, who is among the the group of senior experts on Tibetan history and culture.

"Take my family for example, my parents have four children, and it's one of my younger sisters who will take charge of the family," he explained.

Speaking of the progress on education in Tibet, Danba told participants that 95 percent of Tibetans did not have access to any sort of education before 1959, the year when the region was peacefully liberated from the theocratic feudal serfdom.

"But now all Tibetan children, both boys and girls, get equal opportunities to attend schools where they can learn in Tibetan, Mandarin and English languages," he said.

The delegation was on a visit to Belgium to promote Tibetan cultural exchange and share the development of Tibet over the past decades.

The meeting began with a lecture on Tibetan history by anthropologist and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Hao Shiyuan, which provided an overview of the region's development from the social, economic and cultural aspects.