Fresh Additions for Aiding Tibet, Qinghai Programs

In late July, the 10th and fifth groups of officials and professionals selected respectively for the Tibet and Qinghai aid programs arrived in the two regions, starting their three-year tenure. Of them, 2,114 went to Tibet Autonomous Region and 371 to the neighboring Qinghai Province, where half of the population are ethnic minorities.

The new inductees hail from 17 inland provinces and municipalities. As many as

99.3 percent of them have at least a bachelor’s degree, and most are professionals in a particular field, including

332 medical workers and 400 teachers. They received training in their home provinces/ cities and then the regional capitals of Lhasa and Xining before moving to their new positions in Tibet and Qinghai.