Charu Co-Working space in Chengdu City

Charu Co-Working Space in Chengdu City was established by Tsering Tashi and his friends in 2015. Chengdu is one of the cities where Tibetan youths have come in search of work and new opportunities, while also trying to maintain and sustain their traditional cultures.

In the past twenty years, previously borderless valleys and mountains on the Tibetan Plateau have been carved up into small plots of private land, which have made herding and subsistence farming increasingly difficult. As a result, many rural Tibetans are moving to cities both large (like Beijing and Chengdu) and small (like Yushu) in search of work. In fact, the rate of urbanization in China is so high that the exodus has been recognized by the World Bank as one of the largest rural-to-urban migrations in human history.