Cering Lhaba is pictured at home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
TINGRI, Jan. 8, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tingri County in the city of Xigaze on Jan. 7, 2025, leveling thousands of houses. The day after the earthquake, Cering Lhaba was born in a hospital in Xigaze.
After being discharged from the hospital, the boy from quake-affected Tingri became the beloved baby of the residents living in the temporary prefabricated houses. When his parents had no time to take care of him, neighbors, village cadres and local officials all became his temporary babysitters.
Cering Lhaba, who has just spent his first birthday, has grown up healthily, and lives a pleasant life in his spacious and bright new home.
Cering Lhaba sleeps at the neonatal ward of a hospital in Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 9, 2025. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Cering Lhaba, his grandfather (L) and his mother are pictured in front of their new house in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 24, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Cering Lhaba and his mother are pictured at their newly-decorated home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Nov. 11, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Cering Lhaba is pictured at home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Cering Lhaba and his mother are pictured at home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Party secretary of Chamco Township, Cering Wangdui ®, who served as a temporary babysitter of Cering Lhaba after the earthquake, holds him at his home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Cering Lhaba and his mother are pictured at home in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Cering Lhaba and his mother are pictured in front of their new house in a village of Chamco Township, Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)■