The first school for blind, deaf and mute children in the Tibet Autonomous Region celebrated its first birthday Friday.

The school built in the eastern suburbs of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, occupies 20,000 square meters and is designed to hold 200 pupils.

The school's curriculum includes braille and sign language training, Tibetan, mathematics, writing, ethics training, PE, arts, handcrafts, speech and walking courses.

At the celebration, the audience was touched by a silent song "sung" by the students with sign language.

Baiba Toinzhub, a 10-year-old blind child, can speak fluent Mandarin and is good at singing and dancing. He told visitors that the life in the boarding school is comfortable.

This year the regional government of Tibet and the municipal government of Lhasa donated educational, sports and audio and language training equipment to the school.