Tibet Diangjiao Village Tour Guide Introduction to Diangjiao Village

Diangjiao Village in Tibet is a border town. The natural landscape here is very good, and the people live a relatively simple life. It is an ideal place to live, and the climate and environment are also good. It is a favorite for many self-driving tourists. It’s a great place to visit, and I’ll share with you a detailed introduction below.

Dianjiao Village, Tashigang Township, Gar County, Ali Prefecture, Tibet, located on the Sino-Indian border, is not only an important node guarding the connection between Ali and Kashmir, but its surrounding areas are also traditional pastures where Chinese herdsmen have grazed for generations. The border villages are of great significance to safeguarding the territorial integrity of our country:

The villagers of Dianjiao, who are only 600 meters away from the Indian fort, insist on "grazing on the border" which is tantamount to claiming that the areas where the villagers move are inherent to our country. territory.

Satellite image of the area where Dianjiao Village is located

As can be seen from the map, the strategic position of the area where Dianjiao Village is located is extremely important. It is located in the Himalayas, Gangdise Mountains, Kara Kunlun Mountain is where the three major mountain ranges meet. The Shiquan River flows northwest for about 80 kilometers and then turns, cutting through the Ladakh Mountains and entering the Kashmir region. It is henceforth known as the Indus River. This river valley is an important passage from the Ngari region in Tibet to Kashmir.

Dianjiao Group 1

Dianjiao Village (Dianjiao Group 2)

A straight-line distance of 600 meters from Dianjiao Village is where India has illegally occupied our territory The Baligas Village built later

In the border area between China and India, Dianjiao Village and Baligas are probably the two closest villages. In the area surrounding Dianjiao Village, there is 1,950 square kilometers of land, located on the Chinese side of the traditional customary line. It is part of Gar County, Ali Prefecture, Tibet, my country. It has always belonged to our country, but currently there are still 450 square kilometers illegally occupied by India. , the Chinese government has never recognized the existence of territorial disputes in this area.

30 kilometers away in a straight line to the east of Dianjiao Village is the 219 National Highway, the lifeline of transportation between Tibet and Xinjiang in my country.

There is a red mountain beside the Shiquan River in the area where Dianjiao Village is located. There is an ancient castle on the mountain - Rela Castle. The existence of this castle shows that the area around Dianjiao Village belongs to my country's inherent territory. Historical evidence.

Historically, after the collapse of the Tubo dynasty, the last descendant of Zanpurang Dama, Jide Nyimagon, fled to the Ngari Plateau in the 1030s in order to escape pursuit. The Gerla Castle was built on the banks of the Quan River. Jidenimagun's three sons later founded the Guge dynasty, the Ladakh dynasty and the Yaze dynasty respectively.

The area surrounding the Dianjiaoqu watershed is a high-mountain summer pasture where Dianjiao villagers have grazed for generations

Dianjiaoqu is a tributary of the Shiquan River, and Dianjiao Village is located on the two rivers of intersection. Upstream along the Dianjiao Valley where Dianjiao Qu is located, there is a large area of ??high-quality alpine summer pasture with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters. This is also the summer pasture where Dianjiao villagers have been grazing for generations. According to herdsmen, the pastures here do not seem to be as lush as grasslands at lower altitudes. The pastures grow low, but they are very nutritious. One day for cattle and sheep is equivalent to three days on low-altitude pastures. And precisely because the grass here has deep roots, short leaves, and strong stalks, cattle and sheep cannot eat it all at once, and can withstand continuous layered feeding.

Professor Xie Guiping from the Collaborative Innovation Center for China’s Western Border Security and Development at Sichuan University has been engaged in research on my country’s western border issues. He believes: “Border residents are both builders and defenders of the border. While building our homes, we are also protecting China. The border villages have a harsh natural environment, poor agricultural and animal husbandry production base, and serious population loss. We can only vigorously strengthen infrastructure construction, optimize the living and production environment, vigorously develop characteristic industries, and improve people's livelihood. Only by allowing the residents of these border villages to live and work in peace and contentment can they mobilize their enthusiasm to defend the border."

Dianjiao Village is an administrative village in Tashigang Township, Gar County, Ngari Prefecture, my country. The buildings in the village are all. It is a two-story villa-style new house built in 2018. It is considered a fourth-generation building. 600 meters northwest of Dianjiao Village, across Dianjiaoqu, a tributary of the Shiquan River, is the village Barigas built after India illegally occupied our territory. On the hillside of the mountain that Barrigas was leaning against, there were bunkers built by the Indian army, and the muzzles of their guns were pointed at Dianjiao Village.

There is a fitness square in Dianjiao Village, which is three to four hundred square meters in size and has more than a dozen kinds of fitness equipment installed.

Before 2011, Dianjiao Village still lacked electricity and drinking water, communication was not smooth, transportation and roads were inconvenient, and living and sanitary conditions were relatively backward.

From 2011 to 2018, Gar County invested more than 42 million yuan, allowing the villagers of Dianjiao to bid farewell to their low adobe houses and move into spacious, bright and villa-style new houses with complete facilities and functions. The entire village is reasonably planned and divided into residential areas, breeding areas, artificial grass planting areas and vegetable greenhouse areas.

In the northeast corner of the village, there is a row of bungalows that used to be the International Border Trade Market. It was opened from 1999 to 2008. At that time, Chinese daily necessities and Indian handicrafts were deeply loved by the border residents of China and India. A villager told me that the Indian card mat he bought at this market has been used for more than ten years.

The pattern is smart and exquisite, and the workmanship is exquisite. Such a card mat was sold for two to three thousand yuan at the time, but now you can't buy it for 10,000 yuan.

Dianjiao Village once had a border trade market, but it was closed in 2008.

Dianjiao Village is the only one in Gar County, Ngari Prefecture, located on the Indian Line of Actual Control on the China-India border. Nearby villages have a 34-kilometer border and are less than 1 kilometer away from Indian villages. It is cold and oxygen-deficient here, and there are mostly windy weather throughout the year. There used to be a small border trade market in the village, but it was closed in 2008. This Indian card mat, which was hung to dry by the ditch after being washed, was bought by the villagers at the border trade market and has been used for more than ten years.