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This photo taken on June 1, 2021 shows a Buddhist monk walking near a building being remodelled in the regional capital Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. - Under towering mountains, cranes and newly-built blocks of flats stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth between state workers and everyone else. - TO GO WITH China-Tibet-property-construction-religion,FEATURE by Helen ROXBURGH (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-Tibet-property-construction-religion,FEATURE by Helen ROXBURGH (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

This photo taken on June 1, 2021 shows a Buddhist monk walking near a building being remodelled in the regional capital Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. - Under towering mountains, cranes and newly-built blocks of flats stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth between state workers and everyone else. - TO GO WITH China-Tibet-property-construction-religion,FEATURE by Helen ROXBURGH (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-Tibet-property-construction-religion,FEATURE by Helen ROXBURGH (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)