Thousands of residents gather and perform traditional dance at the Potala Square in Lahsa, capital city of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on March 28, 2012. Authorities designated March 28 as the day to commemorate the 1959 democratic reform in Tibet, which ended the feudal serf system, freeing about 1 million Tibetan, over 90 percent of the regions’ population at the time, from a life of serfdom (XINHUA) |