Poverty Alleviation and Development in Tibet Autonomous Region

　　【Investment of anti-poverty funds】In 2011, a total of 714.18 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds was issued for Tibet Autonomous Region, of which 617.88 million Yuan from the central government, 105.75 million Yuan more than that of 2010, up 20.65%, and 73 million Yuan was the region’s matching funds. Tibet Autonomous Region arranged 20 million Yuan of funds for the labor transfer of featured industries, mutual funds of 3 million Yuanand mutual aid reward funds of 300,000 Yuan.

　　【Convergence of two systems】  Based on the poverty line of 1700 Yuan of rural per capita net income, it identified a total of 159095 low-income rural households and 615485 poverty-stricken people, including 12798 households and 19601 people covered by the five-guarantee system; 28023 households and 80742 people covered by the rural minimum living security system, 43579 households and 1929222 people covered by poverty reduction and the rural minimum living security system, and 74695 households and 322220 people covered by poverty reduction. It set up the electronic file management system for the poor in the region.

　　【Housing project for farmers and herdsmen】 In 2011, it constructed housing projects for 6000 poor households and 24700 poor people moved into safe houses.

　　【Transformation of overhead cable】  It transformed 21 overhead cables into bridges, assigned the task of 84 projects of transformation of overhead cables, and improved the road conditions of 6938 households and 40,200 people.

　　【Entire town advancement】 In 2011, it constructed 80 entire town advancement projects and arranged 359 entire town advancement projects to benefit 26,200 households and 138,800 people.

　　【Infrastructure construction】 In 2011, it launched 516 infrastructure construction and industrial poverty alleviation projects to benefit 38,900 poor households and 184,000 people.

　　【Poverty alleviation training】 In 2011, it organized poverty alleviation trainings for 10600 people, transferred 4800 employments and implemented 31 labor transfer projects for industries with local characteristics to benefit 5000 households and 16,000 people.

　　【Pilot poverty alleviation projects】 It arranged 3 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds to implement pilot mutual fund projects in 20 administrative villages, alleviating the financing difficulty of the poor, and issued 25 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds to launch pilot projects of contiguous development in five counties including Cuona County, etc.

 

　　【Poverty alleviation publicity】  After the central government promulgated the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” (hereinafter referred to as the new outline” and held the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, it vigorously publicized the poverty reduction results to create a good atmosphere for the whole society to concern about people’s livelihood and poverty reduction. In June 2011, it participated in the Exhibition on China’s Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century and displayed its poverty alleviation and development achievements.

　　【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 According to the requirements of the central work conference on poverty alleviation, it coordinated 111 regional (central) organs to send 401 cadres to support the fixed-point poverty alleviation, implemented 271 projects with investment of 152 million Yuan, and mobilized the cadres and staffs to donate more than 10 million Yuan in kind and cash for the poor. Seven prefectures (cities) selected 2301 cadres to conduct the fixed-point poverty alleviation, constructed 608 projects with investment of 202 million Yuan, and mobilized the cadres and the masses to donate more than 20 million Yuan in kind and cash. The “trinity” poverty alleviation pattern integrating special poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation and social poverty alleviation was basically set up.

　　【Preparation of planning】 In accordance with the “Plan for Tibet to Implement the ‘Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas’”, it revised the “12th Five-Year Plan for Poverty Alleviation and Development in Tibet Autonomous Region”; cooperated with LGOP to complete the anti-poverty work in the pilot areas of border poverty reduction in Motuo County not covered by the planning, and prepared the “Entire Town Advancement Planning of Tibet Autonomous Region in the 12th Five-Year Plan Period”.

　　【Poverty alleviation research】 In 2011, the poverty alleviation departments of the province conducted field research in seven prefectures, cities and counties with a distance of 500,000 kilometers to make clear the situations of projects and models and find out relevant problems, successfully completed the survey on the poverty situation of special regions and the entire relocation of Su Village of Lazi County, and coordinated relevant departments to calculate the new poverty line.

　　【Poverty alleviation team building】 The regional, prefecture and county poverty alleviation departments strived for organization support, promoted the excellent cadres devoted to the cause of poverty reduction to the leading positions and established the mechanism for selection of excellent talents with both ability and political integrity. Short-term business training, party school training, education with records of formal schooling and surveys became the main channels for personnel development for poverty reduction. The region selected a total of 473 people to receive the training and participate in the studies and field research.

　　【Effectiveness of poverty alleviation and development】 The number of poverty-stricken people was continuously reduced. Based on the poverty line of 1700 Yuan, in 2011, 408,000 rural residents were low-income people, with a decrease of 94,000 compared with that of the previous year, adequate food and clothing were provided for the poor and some people became well off.

　　The income of the masses continuously increased. By the end of 2011, per capita net income of the farmers and herdsmen in the region was estimated to reach 4700 Yuan, 561 Yuan more than that of the previous year, up 13.6%, maintaining double-digit growth for nine consecutive years.

　　The infrastructure was continuously improved. In the impoverished regions, it improved middle and low-yield farmland of 14800 mu and 718 greenhouses, built canals of 313.27 km and ponds of 296,800 cubic meters, improved meadow irrigation area of 103,100 mu, built village roads of 212.51 km and bridges and culverts of 4.34 km and supported the breeding of 501700 heads of livestock and the purchase of 2268 tractors, accelerating the infrastructure construction in impoverished regions.

　　Household poverty reduction was welcomed. In 2011, through providing support for household poverty reduction, it implemented 581 household projects, accounting for 60% of the total; invested 418 million Yuan for the projects, accounting for 67.3% of the total; and the projects covered 73,000 households and 359,000 people.

　　【Characteristics of poverty alleviation and development】 Targeting at the poor: It targeted at real poor through effective convergence of the “two systems”, the household projects and household funds both exceeded 60%. According to sampling statistics, 81% of the identified poor in the region were objects of the “two systems.

　　Practical working style: In 2011, the regional made early arrangement for the project implementation to benefit the poor. At the end of March 2011, the first batch of poverty alleviation projects were launched, a total of four batches of poverty relief projects were implemented in the whole year, and the number of projects reached 975.

　　Mechanism innovation: It provided rewards instead of direct investment for various areas to adapt to the new situation and meet the new requirements with new measures and methods through making innovations. In 2011, it issued rewards of 7.5 million Yuan in the form of project to nine counties. Shannan Regional Poverty Alleviation Office and the Saga County Government of Rikaze developed the poverty alleviation management methods and poverty reduction responsibility management methods based on local situations, making a contribution to the institutionalization and standardization of the anti-poverty work.

　　A large number of typical models: Yanhu Town, Geji County of Ali Region explored the economic cooperation organization development model of “party committee leadership, public shareholders, stock participation by investment, distribution of dividends based on number of shares, rolling development”. In the livestock projects, Dazi County of Lasa City created the “Dazi” model of “mutual supervision for rolling development”. Taking household poverty reduction as the “top leader” project of the county magistrate, Suo County of Nanqu Region included agricultural projects into the household poverty reduction to ensure that all the poor identified in the convergence of the “two systems” will be supported.