Many Key Issues to Be Improved for Tibet's ModernizationTibetologists and folk scholars said that many key issues in the Tibet Autonomous Region and other regions heavily populated with Tibetans should be handled with care for modernization in those areas.During the three-day symposium, which ended Friday in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, over 70 experts and scholars suggested that the improvement of local people's living standards should be placed at the core of regional economic development in Tibet. Agriculture, industry and service sectors must be enhanced in tandem with each other, they said. Raising the quality of the local people is a prerequisite for Tibet's modernization and the local government should explore a personnel training and management system that is consistent with local characteristics. Faced with economic globalization, local people must find effective measures to preserve unique cultures, which show elite traditions of the Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism. Other topics of the symposium also included infrastructure construction, ecological protection, tourism development, urbanization and the status of Tibetan women in economic development. Li Guoqing, deputy secretary-general of China Tibetology Research Center, said that his center plans to sponsor an international symposium on Tibetology in Beijing in July next year. |
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