Tibet to invest 7 bln yuan to improve livelihood

July,27 2016 BY Master Catherine Jigme 0 COMMENTS

monks have a rest while build their house

Tibet has planned to put seven billion yuan this year into people's livelihood, including improving living conditions, increasing production, employment and income, Xinhua reported.

According to Losang Jamcan, chairman of the local government of Tibet Autonomous Region, the 7-billion-yuan fund would also cover areas of stabilizing price, social insurance, health care, cultural project, poverty relief, preventing and reducing natural disasters as well as safety production.

At the end of last year, the Tibetan local government decided to raise another 11 subsidy standards concerning people's livelihood, which would benefit over 90 percent of the regional population.

So far a subsidy of 560 million yuan has been invested, including 56 million yuan used for improving subsistence allowances for urban and rural residents, 100 million yuan for improving medical subsidy in farming and pastoral areas, 23.6 million yuan for improving village veterinarians' wages and 37.9 million yuan for improving village doctors' wages, and so on.

"I got a 900-yuan festival subsidy from the government before this Tibetan New Year, and now I'm happy to get more subsistence allowances," said Dawa Tashi, an elderly person living in Lhasa with no families, who was one of the beneficiaries accounting for 90 percent of the total population.

local peasants have a rest on autumn harvest

For a long time Tibet owned limited financial resources due to the poor economic and social development level. However, Tibet has been keen on putting the limited funds into helping poverty-stricken groups and improving fundamental public services, such as education, medical service and health care at the grassroots level. According to statistics, over five billion yuan was invested in people's livelihood in 2013, accounting for over 50 percent of all the fiscal expenditure of the year.

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