Linchih

In 1966 with the warm support of fraternal workers in the motherland’s interior provinces, the Shanghai Weilun Woollen Textile Mill moved to Tibet and set up the region’s first such plant in Linchih.[…] Linchih, formerly a desolate, bramble-filled gully, uninhabited and the haunt of wild animals, is now a newborn industrial city in Tibet.

中国少数民族在前进

1977, Yin Ming [尹明], “Surging Advance of Industry and Transport”, in United and Equal — The Progress of China's Minority Nationalities [中国少数民族在前进], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 53

An hour later, we crossed a long bridge and passed through a town named Linchih, where we stopped for breakfast in a restaurant that looked like a factory. Beyond Linchih, the forest closed in again and we had our tea in a wooded glen with a sparkling white peak at the head of it: a solitary spire, snowy and slender and framed with green.

1986, Brian M. Schwartz, “Tibet: 1982”, in Travels through the Third World, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 477