2 billion yuan invested in Tibetan livelihoods

July,29 2016 BY Master Catherine Jigme 0 COMMENTS

People who would like to have Tibet travel always keep an eye on Tibetan livelihoods as well as beautiful scenery. In recent years the life level has been greatly improved for Tibetans. More than 2 billion yuan (315 million US dollars) had been invested to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, from 2007 to 2011.

Happy Tibetan woman

In the past five years, 845 million yuan had pumped into the housing project and over 1.19 billion yuan into social security with a year-on-year increase of 32.24%, according to the Lhasa Finance Bureau.

New built Tibetan house

A total of 360,300 million residents have had the social insurance and those above 45 can enjoy free health check-up while the subsistence allowance standard has increased to 360 yuan per person and the rural minimum living subsidy to 1,450 yuan per person.

medical insurance

In addition, the mortality rate of the pregnant women has decreased from 2.23‰ to 1.22‰ and that of the newborn babies from 32.3‰ to 22.3‰ from 2007 to 2011, according to the first session of Lhasa's 10th National People's Congress.

water supply

Shokar, a Tibetan mother who gave birth to her first three kids at home and the fourth at hospital, said, "It's free to give birth at hospital and the government also offers some subsidy and children's clothes as rewards."

new school cars

In the past five years, Lhasa has built 257 public cultural service facilities, two national cultural industry demonstration bases as well as five regional ones, said Dorje Tsegyu, mayor of Lhasa.
Besides, Lhasa has added 24,380 rural jobs with its registered unemployment rate kept below 3%.

About the Author - Master Catherine Jigme

With exceptional passion and outstanding leadership, Mrs. Catherine has dedicated herself to Tibet inbound tourism and China tour for 15 years. As one of the handful females who see great potential of Chinese inbound tourism, Catherine has made great contribution to promoting Tibet tourism and enhancing the employment of Tibetans and prosperity of local Tibetan community.

Over the years, she travelled overseas with Tibet Tourism Bureau many times to promote Tibet tourism. Currently, Catherine works as the marketing director of Tibet Vista, an opinion leader behind the whole team of Tibet Vista.

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