The Northwest College of Nationalities has successfully developed a Tibetan software tool and a software universally used for Tibetan, Chinese and English languages and these, as authenticated by experts from departments concerned, have been claimed to be the first of their kind, at world top level.

There was already developed a prototype of Tibetan software used in China. But it was just a processing tool for publishing, used for no more than inputting and editing Tibetan books and newspapers. This has raised the demand for new Tibetan software tool and software along with other ethnic language software tools to be developed and widely used to a multiple specific purpose. This is especially so for school language teaching as of Tibetan, Chinese and English for a countrywide Internet project going in for long-distance education is going to be launched in Tibetan-speaking and other ethnic minority areas in China.

(People’s Daily December 19, 2001)