Serfs Emancipation Day celebrated in Tibet Residents celebrate the Serfs Emancipation Day.(Photo/ Tibet.cn) Doctor from Tibet Autonomous R...

Serfs Emancipation Day celebrated in Tibet

Residents celebrate the Serfs Emancipation Day.(Photo/ Tibet.cn)

Doctor from Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital and Hospital of Tibetan Medicine give volunteer medical consultation.(Photo/ Tibet.cn)

Residents celebrate the Serfs Emancipation Day.(Photo/ Tibet.cn)

Residents celebrate the Serfs Emancipation Day.(Photo/ Tibet.cn)

BEIJING, March 28(Xinhuanet)--Tibetans in southern Tibet's Lhoka Prefecture got togather to celebrate the upcoming Serfs Emancipation Day on March 25, 2012.

The Serfs Emancipation Day takes place on March 28 every year. On March 28, 1959, the central government announced it would dissolve the aristocratic local government of Tibet and replace it with a preparatory committee for establishing the Tibet Autonomous Region.

That meant the end of serfdom and the abolition of the hierarchic social system characterized by theocracy, with the Dalai Lama as the core of the leadership. About 1 million serfs and slaves, accounting for 90 percent of Tibetan population in the1950s, were thus emancipated.