Fifty years ago, on March 28, 1959, Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of the People's Repubfic of China, promulgated a decree of the State Council, declanng the Tibet local government controlled by Tibet's fe...Fifty years ago, on March 28, 1959, Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of the People's Repubfic of China, promulgated a decree of the State Council, declanng the Tibet local government controlled by Tibet's feudal aristocrats and upperstratum clergy dissolved on that day and resolving that the powers of the Tibet local government be exercised by the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region from that day on. This decision of great historic significance sounded the death knell of the feudal serf system in old Tibet, a theocratic system that was reactionary, corrupt and dark. The change of government cleared obstacles and created conditions for development and progress in Tibet. After that a broad democratic reform movement swept the plateau region. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the one million serfs in Tibet buried the feudal serf system and won their emancipation,展开更多
文摘Fifty years ago, on March 28, 1959, Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of the People's Repubfic of China, promulgated a decree of the State Council, declanng the Tibet local government controlled by Tibet's feudal aristocrats and upperstratum clergy dissolved on that day and resolving that the powers of the Tibet local government be exercised by the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region from that day on. This decision of great historic significance sounded the death knell of the feudal serf system in old Tibet, a theocratic system that was reactionary, corrupt and dark. The change of government cleared obstacles and created conditions for development and progress in Tibet. After that a broad democratic reform movement swept the plateau region. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the one million serfs in Tibet buried the feudal serf system and won their emancipation,