By IANS,
Beijing : China will lift more than 100,000 people out of poverty in the next five years in the country’s Tibetan region, according to a government plan.
In 2011, the government raised the national poverty alleviation standard from 1,274 yuan ($202) to 2,300 yuan, putting 430,000 people in poverty bracket in northwestern Gannan Tibetan prefecture, said Wei Jianrong, Communist Party of China’s regional secretary.
Beijing now plans to lift more than 100,000 people out of poverty in the prefecture by 2015, Xinhua reported.
The State Council, the country’s top legislature, has earmarked 178 million yuan (about $28 million) in poverty alleviation and disaster prevention program in the region.
Commercial crops were planted for industrial development and dams were built to prevent further geological disasters, according to the prefecture’s poverty alleviation office.