#ProsperityOnthePlateau: Average life expectancy in Tibet rises to 70 6 beijingbulletin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from beijingbulletin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Sonam Drolma, 109, talks with her great granddaughters in the courtyard at home in Reguo Village of Gyaca County in Shannan, southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, March 24, 2020. The average life expectancy in Tibet has risen to 70.6 years, a senior Chinese health official said on Dec. 15, 2020.
The autonomous region has also witnessed significant improvements in key health indicators including the infant and children mortality rate, the maternal mortality rate and the hospital delivery rate over the last five years, said Li Dachuan from the National Health Commission at a press conference. Before democratic reform in 1959, the average life expectancy in Tibet was just 35.5 years. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
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· 2020-12-15 · Source: Xinhua News Agency
Children hold lambs in Pumaqangtang Township of Nagarze County in Shannan, Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, on April 15. Tibet has accomplished the historical feat of eradicating absolute poverty(XINHUA)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a letter of congratulations to the International Forum on Sharing Poverty Reduction Experience, which opened on December 14 in Beijing.
Calling poverty eradication a common ideal of humanity, Xi said that the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government made unremitting and arduous efforts to ensure a better life for the people.
Since 2012, China has launched a full-scale battle against poverty, based on its previous poverty alleviation efforts, Xi said.
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