A Tibetan herdsman rests at her tent in Aba Tibetan and Quango Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas
NGABA, China (Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Longsel Tsondre sees nothing romantic about the itinerant life his Tibetan herder family left behind when the government in his remote corner of southwestern China offered to resettle them a few years ago.
"It was pretty tough out there. There was no development and we were quite poor," he told reporters on a rare government-organised trip to Ngaba, a heavily Tibetan part of Sichuan province traditionally strongly defiant of Chinese rule.
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