Tibet's Shigatse dumps poverty label

By Palden Nyima and Daqiong in Lhasa | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-04-20 15:19
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A Tibetan woman works in a clothing production workshop in Shigatse's Samdrubtse district. The workshop has been supported by the local government as a poverty alleviation project. [Photo by Palden Nyima/chinadaily.com.cn]

Authorities in Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region, announced recently that they have removed all the city's 18 impoverished areas from the poverty list.

To date, the city's 172,900 impoverished people in 1,669 villages and residential communities have all been stripped of the impoverished label as their incomes have improved.

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