Income of Qinghai-Tibet Railway Rural Laborers to Increase

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Income of Qinghai-Tibet Railway Rural Laborers to Increase

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The Chinese government will appropriate over one billion yuan (120 million US dollars) to increase the incomes of the rural laborers working on the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway in southwest China this year.

The special fund will be used to ensure the living and working conditions of rural laborers will be same as employees of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company, said Lu Chunfang, chief official in charge of construction.

A new policy says that each rural laborer is entitled to a food subsidy of 10 yuan (1.2 US dollars) per day.

Those who work on construction sites below 4,000 meters above sea level will get a daily salary of at least 50 yuan, while workers on sites from 4,000 to 4,500 meters will receive at least 55 yuan, and above 4,500 meters 60 yuan, according to the policy.

Furthermore, the Headquarters of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Construction is making efforts to provide health insurance for more than 30,000 workers on the project and at present all the workers, including rural laborers, enjoy free medical treatment.

To prevent them from catching severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS), the headquarters ordered that only workers from Qinghai Province and the Tibet Autonomous Region could stay at the construction sites and the free medicine to build up resistance toSARS should be dispensed as soon as possible.

Formally started in 2001, the railway project is expected to cost a total of 36 billion yuan (4.34 billion US dollars) and is scheduled to be completed by 2007, making it the country's first railway linking Tibet and the rest of China.

With a total length of 1,100 kilometers, the railway will link Golmud, a traffic hub in Qinghai Province, with Lhasa, the regional capital of Tibet, and later will be extended to Shigaze and Linzhi in Tibet, as well as Yunnan Province in southwest China.

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