More supplies lower prices in Lhasa

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Source: CCTV.com | 04-28-2008 08:55

With the May Day holiday just around the corner, officials say markets in Lhasa now have adequate stocks and prices are stable.

With the May Day holiday just around the corner, officials say markets in Lhasa now have adequate stocks and prices are stable.

All the booths in Lhasa's biggest rural trade market are open for business again. The market was badly affected by rioters on March 14th. But officials say it now has enough supplies, and prices have fallen.

Meanwhile, first-quarter foreign trade figures registered double-digit growth. Foreign trade volume for the period before the riots reached more than 89 million US dollars, up 16.2 percent from the same quarter last year, and imports tripled.

Improved infrastructure has helped lift Tibet's imports and exports to more than 1.3 billion US dollars in the past five years. That's almost double the figure for the previous five years.

Editor:Zhang Ning