The Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China has secured an average economic growth of over 12 percent for five years in a row.
The region has also witnessed good progress in urbanization, coupled with completion of more major infrastructure, such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the first of its kind in Tibet, which was completed last October and will begin trial operation on July 1.
Legqog, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, attributed the current faster economic development in Tibet to the implementation of an assigned aid program under which economically developed eastern and southern regions of China provided financial support to underdeveloped areas in west China.
Apart from 63.01 billion yuan (about 7.77 billion U.S. dollars )invested by the central government in constructing infrastructure in the plateau region between 1994 and 2005, 18 provinces and municipalities, 61 Chinese governmental organizations, as well as 17 enterprises directly administered by the central departments have been assigned with specified tasks to help Tibet develop its local economy.
They have helped the remote region start up new ventures donated materials to it and brought in funds from the exterior side, and the value involved is placed at 7.76 billion yuan.
In the meantime, 3,081 inlanders have been sent to work temporarily in this plateau region, also dubbed as the "roof of the world", who have in turn brought along with them new concepts for development.
"We would have had to wait at least 20 more years to see Tibet's present-day progress if the assigned aid program had not been launched," said Legqog.
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