More Measures to Boost Tibetan Herders and Farmers’ Incomes

This year, Tibet Autonomous Region plans to offer training for 100,000 farmers and herders, help 600,000 more find jobs out of their hometowns, and increase local rural residents’ income by at least 13 percent. The region will give priority to seven sectors, namely, plantation of barley, vegetables, and feed grass, raising of yak, sheep, and pigs, and dairy products. It will also improve its transport, water conservation, and energy infrastructure and make more efforts to improve people’s livelihood and invigorate the countryside.

Human resources authorities in Tibet will collect data on the number of required workers by employers, requirements for their skills, work locations, and salaries, and then make the information available to the public. Construction projects for relocation will hire local farmers and herders to provide them with more sources of income.

By the end of March 2020, China had built more than million homes for people relocated through poverty alleviation programs. About million such people have already moved in, putting the occupancy rate of these houses at percent.