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TIBETAN delegates to the autonomous region’s annual people’s congress warned today that education and healthcare lagged behind most Chinese provinces.
Urgent action to train more grassroots doctors and teachers was required, the congress heard.
Delegates praised the drive to promote ethnic Tibetans in the Communist Party and regional government, noting that they now accounted for 70 per cent of party members in Tibet compared to just a third when the autonomous region was established.
Maizhokunggar county chief Losang, who himself trained as a doctor, said: “The preferential policy on ethnic minorities made me a respected doctor from the son of a former slave,” urging greater investment in such programmes.
Before 1911 Tibet’s Buddhist theocracy ran a slave-based economy with minimal interference from China’s rulers so long as regular tribute flowed to the emperor in Beijing.
