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Yongzin (Tibetan: ཡོངས་འཛིན, Chinese: 云藏) (www.yongzin.com) is the first search engine of Tibetan language on the world. It goes live on Aug. 22, 2016 in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China.

'Yongzin' is a Tibetan word. The first meaning is 'teacher'. The second meaning (by divide the word into two characters) is 'to acquire comprehensively'.

Yongzin is developed by the Tibetan Language Information Technology Research Center of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. This project is started from April 2013, and it belong to the 'Tibetan language informationization construction' project, which is a part of the 12th five-year plan for the ethnic minorities of Qinghai Province.

At beginning, Yongzin has eight parts: news (གསར་འགྱུར།), webpage (དྲ་ངོས), image (པར་རིས།), video (བརྙན་རིས།), audio (གླུ་དབྱངས།), encyclopedia (རིག་མཛོད།), library (ཡིག་ཚང་།) and know (དྲིས་ལན།). In the future, Yongzin will build the biggest Tibetan digital library on the world, and develop software for Tibetan language users.

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