191011 -- LHASA, Oct. 11, 2019 Xinhua -- Jianre Yixi walks before a helicopter in southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 7, 2019. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once known as a no-fly zone and it was extremely difficult to fly helicopters there. Now, after professional and intensive training, the first batch of young Tibetans has flown civilian helicopters to the Mt. Qomolangma base camp. Jianre Yixi is from an impoverished herdsman family in Damxung County, Tibet. In 2016, Jianre Yixi, a student at Lhasa s No. 2 Secondary Vocational and Technical School, received a call to change her

191011 -- LHASA, Oct. 11, 2019 Xinhua -- Jianre Yixi walks before a helicopter in southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 7, 2019. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once known as a no-fly zone and it was extremely difficult to fly helicopters there. Now, after professional and intensive training, the first batch of young Tibetans has flown civilian helicopters to the Mt. Qomolangma base camp. Jianre Yixi is from an impoverished herdsman family in Damxung County, Tibet. In 2016, Jianre Yixi, a student at Lhasa s No. 2 Secondary Vocational and Technical School, received a call to change her Stock Photo
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191011 -- LHASA, Oct. 11, 2019 Xinhua -- Jianre Yixi walks before a helicopter in southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 7, 2019. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once known as a no-fly zone and it was extremely difficult to fly helicopters there. Now, after professional and intensive training, the first batch of young Tibetans has flown civilian helicopters to the Mt. Qomolangma base camp. Jianre Yixi is from an impoverished herdsman family in Damxung County, Tibet. In 2016, Jianre Yixi, a student at Lhasa s No. 2 Secondary Vocational and Technical School, received a call to change her fate when a company selected pilots from poverty-stricken families. After studying more than 10 theoretical courses and hundreds of hours of intensive training, Jianre Yixi spent one year learning the flight skills and successfully ob PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

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