LHASA: Under towering mountains, cranes and newly built blocks of flats stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth between state workers and everyone else.

A huge infrastructure and building drive in Tibet has brought airports, roads, railways and new flats, which Beijing said are improving life across the remote mountainous plateau.

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