China News Service, March 29 "Tibet insists on promoting human rights through development, fully, accurately and comprehensively implementing the new development concept, and comprehensively improving the level of economic and social rights protection through development, the Tibetan people's right to appropriate living standards, right to education, right to work, right to health, and right to social security are more fully protected."

On the 28th, the State Council Information Office released the white paper "Development and Progress of Tibet's Human Rights Cause in the New Era", which mentioned the above content.

The people’s happy life is the greatest human right.

"The most important criterion for testing a country's human rights situation is whether the interests of the people of its own country are effectively protected and whether the people's sense of gain, happiness and security have been enhanced." Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi explained this in this way at the high-level meeting of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council a month ago.

In Tibet, what is the connotation of human rights? The earth-shaking changes in the snowy plateau give the answer.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has successively held the sixth and seventh Tibet work symposiums, clarified the guiding ideology and goals and tasks of Tibet work under the new situation, established the Party’s strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, planned and implemented a large number of key construction projects supported by the central government, formulated a series of special preferential policies that benefited the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, and opened a new chapter in the comprehensive development of Tibet’s human rights cause.

As Wang Haizhou, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Minister of the Propaganda Department, said, survival is the basis for enjoying all human rights. The people's ability to live happily is the greatest human rights. China regards the protection of the right of survival of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet and the realization of the right of development of the people of all ethnic groups as its top priority, and strives to solve the most concerned, most direct and most realistic survival and development issues of the Tibetan people, and achieve high-quality survival and development.

People are the first, which is the core concept, the loftiest pursuit, and the heaviest background color of Chinese modernization.

High-quality development is the hard truth of the new era.

Over the years, a series of special preferential policies and measures to accelerate the development of Tibet have formed a comprehensive support pattern of national direct investment and construction projects, the central government's implementation of financial subsidies, and the country's counterpart support, which has effectively promoted Tibet's economic development and social progress, significantly improved the living standards of the Tibetan people, and fully guaranteed the realization of the rights to regional ethnic autonomy.

In recent years, Tibet's urban and rural appearance has been completely renewed and its infrastructure has been fully upgraded. The mileage of highways in the district has exceeded 124,900 kilometers, and the aviation and railway networks are well connected. The "five cities and three-hour economic circle" makes travel more convenient. Communication development is particularly noteworthy, and the 5G network has covered remote villages with an altitude of 5,200 meters.

Modern home appliances and transportation tools are becoming increasingly popular among Tibetan families, and the social security system continues to be improved. The construction of beautiful villages and ecological civilization construction are being coordinated, and the level of infrastructure and public services in border areas is constantly improving. These tangible development achievements have continuously enhanced the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, vividly showing the prosperity of Tibet in the new era.

The white paper ends with the end, "Today's Tibet, people of all ethnic groups are filled with happy smiles." Behind the sincere smiles is the best proof of Tibet's high-quality development business cards.

The level of protection of economic and social rights in Tibet has been comprehensively improved.

——In 2024, the per capita net income of the people who have been lifted out of poverty in Tibet increased by more than 12.5%.

——As of 2024, there are 3,618 schools at all levels and types in Tibet, with a total number of students reaching 970,000.

——The urban surveyed unemployment rate is lower than the national average, and zero-employed families continue to be dynamically cleared.

——The average life expectancy in Tibet has increased from 68.17 years in 2010 to 72.19 years in 2020.

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The level of education security is constantly improving, and the level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap; employment services are constantly improving, and multiple measures are taken to increase employment opportunities for college graduates; the medical and health service network is fully covered, and the Tibetan medical industry has been inherited and developed; the multi-level social security system has been basically established, the minimum living standards for urban and rural areas have been continuously improved, and the coverage has been continuously expanded...

From the millions of serfs broke free from the shackles 66 years ago to the historic elimination of absolute poverty, every footprint of Tibet's development is engraved on the monument of the times. Economic development has brought a series of beneficial effects, and Tibet's various economic and social rights protection levels have also been comprehensively improved.

The world changes the world for development.

Development is for the people.

The people's happiness is the greatest human right. (End)