Bayi Town

Bayi Town It is both a newly flouring industrious town and the seat of Nyingchi Administration. The town is surrounded by a thick, beautiful forest. The temperature is moderate and rainfall abundant. It is not only suitable for planting crops and vegetables but also for visiting tourists.
A developing industrial city in eastern Tibet, Bayi Town is the site of the Nyingchi government. It is located in Nyingchi County, at 2,900 meters above sea level, and is surrounded by green mountains, with abundant rain and a pleasant climate. The Nyang River flows south of the town. Formerly named "Lhabagar," before the 1960s Bayi Town was a desolate flood land where wild animals lived; the town had two small temples and scores of households. The residents used to engage in simple farming and husbandry. Later, to commemorate the People‘s Liberation Army‘s contribution to the construction of the "Lhabagar" town, it was renamed Bayi Town. Gradually, the place developed into a small town with a wool mill, a power plant, a timber mill, a paper mill, a building material factory, a printing house and other factories, as well as a hospital, a school and a bank. But it remained a quiet, small town until a decade ago, when it began to develop faster than ever. Now the formerly sparsely populated small town has become a thriving new town in the forest zone with a population of 14,000.