Letter from Lhasa: "Granary of Xizang" embraces the pulse of modern harvest

by Xinhua writer Liu Zhoupeng

LHASA, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Under the blazing sun, golden fields of highland barley swayed like waves in the wind as 39-year-old farmer Lhapa Tenzin drove his harvester through, gathering the ripe grain into piles.

The scenes unfolded in Xigaze, a city in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region known as the "Granary of Xizang." In Bainang County, a major grain production b