公共文化服务覆盖城乡，人们精神生活不断丰富。全区已建成群众艺术馆8座、公共图书馆5座、博物馆3座，建成县综合文化活动中心74座，乡镇综合文化站692座，建成文化信息资源共享工程自治区分中心、7个地市支中心、74个县支中心、692个乡镇基层点、5389个村基层点，区、地、县、乡四级公共文化设施网络初步形成。投资近13亿元的“十二五”文化设施建设项目全面推进，到2015年底，西藏将基本实现“地市有公共图书馆和文化馆，馆藏文物丰富地区有博物馆，县县有图书馆、文化馆或综合性文化活动中心，乡乡有综合文化站，53%的县国有艺术团有排练场”目标，公共文化设施总量将达到790个。建成1600余个文化广场，形成拉萨雪顿节等群众性、常态化品牌文化活动90个。全面启动了公共设施的免费开放工作，近5年来，全区公共文化设施共开展免费群众文化活动4万余场，受益群众达到800余万人次。全区专业文艺团体和县民间艺术团年均下乡演出近1万场次，送书下乡10万余册。

　　新闻出版事业迅速发展，文化产品日益丰富。西藏人民出版社、西藏藏文古籍出版社累计出版各类图书(教材)19052种、2.8263亿册。西藏音像出版社、雪域音像电子出版社2014年出版音像电子产品115种37.96万盘。报纸、期刊分别发展到25种、35种。全区出版发行单位发展到576家，其中区、地、县新华书店89家，边境口岸新华书店5家，民营发行网点482家。2014年全区共发行图书约3395万册，图书销售码洋3.23亿元。全区印刷企业38家，其中规模以上重点印刷企业1家。2014年全区印刷业总产值3.6亿元。目前，全面建成5609个农家书屋、1700多个寺庙书屋，实现所有行政村有农家书屋、寺寺有寺庙书屋，有效解决了农牧民群众和寺庙僧尼读书难、用书难问题。

Public cultural services now cover both urban and rural areas in Tibet, and have enriched people's cultural life. The Region has built eight public art centers, five public libraries, three museums, 74 county-level cultural activity centers, and 692 township-level cultural stations. In addition, it has built one regional center, seven prefecture-level sub-centers, 74 county-level sub-centers, 692 township-level stations, and 5,389 village-level stations as part of the project to share cultural information and resources. A cultural facility network covering the four levels of autonomous region, prefecture, county, and township is also taking shape. The cultural facility construction project as an important part of the 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015) with a total input of nearly 1.3 billion yuan is making full progress. By the end of 2015, all prefectures and cities in Tibet will have public libraries and cultural centers, areas rich in cultural relics will have museums, all counties will have libraries, cultural centers or comprehensive cultural activity centers, all townships will have cultural stations, and 53 percent of the county-level state-owned art troupes will have rehearsal spaces. The total number of public cultural venues will reach 790. Tibet has built more than 1,600 cultural squares, and launched 90 regularly-staged popular cultural activities, including the Lhasa Shoton Festival celebrations. Tibet also initiated the campaign to provide free access to public facilities. In the recent five years, the Region's public cultural venues have launched more than 40,000 free mass cultural events, benefiting more than eight million people. The Region's professional art groups and folk art groups at the county level staged more than 10,000 shows, and sent more than 100,000 books to the countryside.

Tibet's press and publishing are growing fast, and more and more cultural products are appearing. Tibet People's Publishing House and Tibetan Ancient Books Publishing House published 19,052 book and textbook titles, totaling 282.63 million printed copies. In 2014, the Tibet Audio-Visual Publishing House and the Snowfield Electronic Audio-Visual Publishing House published 115 audio-visual and electronic book titles, totaling 379,600 copies. Tibet has 25 newspapers, 35 periodicals, and 576 publishing and distribution entities, among which 89 are Xinhua Bookstores at regional, prefectural and county levels, five are Xinhua Bookstores at frontier ports, and 482 are private distribution networks. In 2014, the autonomous region distributed 33.95 million copies of books, with a total value of 323 million yuan. The Region has 38 printing enterprises, one of which is a key enterprise with its turnover over 20 million yuan per annum. In 2014, the total output of the Region's printing industry reached 360 million yuan. The Region has built 5,609 rural libraries and 1,700 monastery libraries, bringing libraries to all administrative villages and monasteries, and providing all farmers, herdsmen, monks and nuns with access to books.