Comrade Wang Feng: I would like to study the current situation of the entire Tibetan nationality.

2. What is the total area in square kilometers?
3. The content of the serf system, the relations between serfs and serf-owners (aristocrats), and the respective shares of products each side receives. Some say the split is 20-80; others say that formally everything belongs to the aristocrats, but in practice the serfs conceal production and divide it privately to survive. Is this correct?
4. How many lamas are there in total? Some say 80,000. Is this accurate?
5. The political relations between the aristocrats and the serfs. Do the aristocrats have the right to kill? Do they conduct private trials and impose private punishments?
6. The situation of exploitation and oppression of the serfs subordinate to the lamaseries.
7. The situation of exploitation and oppression within the lamaseries. Some say that rebellious lamas are skinned and have their tendons pulled out. Is there any truth to this?
8. Where does the vast annual funding for the various levels of local government in Tibet and the Tibetan army come from? From the serfs, or from the aristocrats?
9. What percentage of the total population do the rebels constitute? Is it 5 percent? Or perhaps more, or less—only 1, 2, or 3 percent? Which is correct?
10. Within the entire exploiting class, what are the respective percentages of left, middle, and right elements? Does the left wing account for one-third, or perhaps less? How many are in the middle faction?
11. How many Tibetans are there in each of the four provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai, and what is the total number of Tibetans? Some say the four provinces together have between 2 million and 3 million. Is this correct?
12. What is the total area in square kilometers of the Tibetan-inhabited regions in these four provinces?
13. What is the situation revealed by the grievance-denunciation movements in the lamaseries of Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan? Some say quite a few human skins have been uncovered. Is this true?

Regarding the above questions, please conduct

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1. West of the Jinsha River, constituting Tibet proper—Chamdo, Ü-Tsang (including Ngari)—the population is said to be 1.2 million. Is this correct?