Letter from Lhasa: Traditional Tibetan medicine gains new lease of life in modern production plants

by Liu Zhoupeng

LHASA, May 13 (Xinhua) -- I recently visited a famous Tibetan medicine production plant in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region to interview Phurtsamjor, a frontline pharmacist and national model worker.

The plant has a history of more than 300 years and was formerly a medical college near the Potala Palace in the regional capital Lhasa. It is now called Ganlu Traditional Medicine lo