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Tibetan Official meets Thailand Delegation
Basang, vice-secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
, met here Sunday with members of a delegation from the Committee on Women, Youth and Elderly Affairs of the Senate of Thailand.
Basang, who is also vice-president of the All-China Women's Federation, briefed the delegation on the great changes that have taken place in the Tibet Autonomous Region over the past 50 years, stressing that it is due to the democratic reform started in 1959 that the Tibetan people have become their own masters.
She said that education in Tibet has greatly improved, and the average life-span here has increased from 36 years in 1959 to 67 today. The regional government has also built homes for the aged to support senior citizens.
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