The truth of Xizang autonomous region
By CUI JIA | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-11-10 14:04
Chairman of the Xizang autonomous region on Friday urged people not to be fooled by fake news about the region but rather to come see it for themselves.
"Many foreign visitors said that what they saw and heard in Xizang are totally different from what they've learnt from the news in their own countries. I welcome people to visit the region so they can tell the world what Xizang is really like in different aspects, objectively," Yan Jinhai, chairman of the Xizang autonomous region.
He made the remarks after the State Council Information Office released a white paper on the policies of the Communist Party of China on the governance of Xizang in the new era.
The white paper, titled "CPC Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the New Era: Approach and Achievements", highlighted how the CPC's guidelines for governing Xizang in the new era have brought about all-round progress and historic success in various undertakings in the region.
Yan highlighted the achievements on poverty alleviation. "Eradicating absolute poverty in a high plateau area with harsh environment is extremely difficult, but Xizang has achieved the goal."
According to the White Paper, by the end of 2019, through the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation, the region had lifted 628,000 registered poor residents and 74 counties and districts out of poverty. This represented a victory in the war against extreme poverty that had plagued Xizang for thousands of years.
Also, the growth rate of the average annual disposable income of Xizang residents has topped other provinces and regions in China for eight consecutive years, Yan added.
The White Paper also said that, following the CPC's guidelines for governing Xizang in the new era, significant progress has been made to stabilize the social environment, achieve rapid economic progress and strengthen the Party organization in Xizang, which has led to a better life for its people, cultural prosperity, sound ecological systems and secured borders.
Together with the rest of the country, people in Xizang have witnessed the tremendous transformation of the nation from standing up, becoming prosperous and growing in strength, and are now embarking on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects, it added.
