Grand celebrations will be held on March 28 to mark Serfs Emancipation Day in Lhasa and Beijing, Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet regional government, said on Thursday.

The setting of Serfs Emancipation Day is welcomed in Tibet, where 95 percent of its population was slaves and serfs before the democratic reform annulled serfdom in 1959 in the Himalaya region, he told reporters on the sidelines of the parliament session that started Thursday morning.

Source: Xinhua

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