结束语

　　60年在人类历史的长河中只是短暂的瞬间。但是，在中国共产党和中国政府的领导下，西藏各族人民创造了短短60年跨越上千年的人间奇迹。

　　和平解放60年的历史证明，西藏作为中国不可分割的组成部分，历来与祖国同命运、共发展。西藏的发展进步与祖国息息相关，祖国的命运直接影响到西藏的前途。近代中国积贫积弱、政府腐败无能，沦为半殖民地半封建社会，包括西藏在内的中国领土遭到西方列强的侵略和蹂躏，面临被瓜分肢解的厄运。中华人民共和国成立以后，在中央人民政府的强有力领导和特殊关怀下，西藏实现了和平解放，并通过民主改革、自治区成立、社会主义建设和改革开放，由一个政教合一的封建农奴制社会跨入了人民民主的社会主义现代化社会，实现了经济的快速发展和社会的全面进步，一步步地向现代化迈进。可以说，西藏60年的发展进步是与祖国的统一、发展和中央的关心、全国的支援分不开的。没有祖国的独立、统一和富强，就没有西藏社会的新生和发展。只有坚持中国共产党的领导，坚持社会主义道路，坚持民族区域自治制度，坚持走有中国特色、西藏特点的发展路子，西藏才有繁荣进步的今天和更加美好的明天。

Concluding Remarks

Sixty years are just a fleeting moment in the history of mankind. However, within six decades Tibet has achieved development that would normally call for a millennium. Under the leadership of the CPC and the Chinese government, the people of Tibet have created a miracle.

The 60 years following Tibet’s peaceful liberation have proved that Tibet, as an inseparable part of China, shares its destiny with the motherland, and its development is impossible without that of China. In modern times, when China was re-duced to semi-colonial and semi-feudal society beset with po-verty and weakness under corrupt and incompetent regimes, Tibet was also invaded and bullied by Western powers. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Tibet was peacefully liberated. Under the leadership of and with special care from the Central People’s Government, and through democratic reform, the founding of the autonomous region, socialist construction and the reform and opening-up, Tibet has abolished serfdom and theocracy, become a modern, democratic socialist society, achieved rapid and comprehensive economic and social development, and embarked on the road to modernity. Tibet’s 60 years of development would have been impossible without the care of the Central Authorities and the support of the entire nation. Moreover, Tibet’s rebirth and development would have been impossible without national unification, independ-ence and prosperity. Only by adhering to the leadership of the CPC, the path of socialism, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the development mode with Chinese characteristics and Tibet’s regional features, can Tibet enjoy lasting prosperity and a bright future.

　　当前，中国正处于全面建设小康社会、加快推进改革开放和现代化建设的新的历史时期。中央召开了第五次西藏工作座谈会，从国家发展和西藏的实际出发，确立了西藏从加快发展到跨越式发展、从基本稳定到长治久安的战略目标，作出了全面的部署。西藏的改革发展稳定各项工作呈现出喜人的局面。我们相信，有过去60年发展奠定的良好基础，有中央的关心、全国的支援和西藏各族人民的共同奋斗，西藏必将迎来更加美好的明天。

Today, China is in a historical period of building a mod-erately prosperous society in an all-round way, speeding up reform and opening up and realizing modernization. The Fifth Tibet Work Forum, held by the Central Authorities, formulated the strategic goal to realize leapfrog development on the basis of the rapid development achieved so far and achieve lasting stability on the basis of basic stability by proceeding from the reality of Tibet and the development of the country. Tibet is advancing smoothly in the course of reform and in all of its undertakings, and we have every reason to believe that the Tibet Autonomous Region will have a better future with the combined efforts of all ethnic groups in Tibet and the help of the entire nation.