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DEPT FOR EAP/CM AND INR 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  8/7/2033 
TAGS: PGOV ECON PHUM CH
SUBJECT: TIBETAN PREFECTURE IN SOUTHWEST CHINA -- HIGH SUBSIDIES 
DON'T APPARENTLY BUY HAPPINESS 
 
REF: A. CHENGDU 135 
     ¶B. CHENGDU 13 
     ¶C. 07 CHENGDU 220 
     ¶D. 07 CHENGDU 56 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: James A. Boughner, Consul General, U.S. Consulate 
General, Chengdu. 
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 
 
 
 
¶1. (S) Summary:  A series of internal government documents 
recently obtained by post provide an unusually detailed look 
into the internal workings of the poor and predominantly ethnic 
Tibetan prefecture of Ganzi in southwest China's Sichuan 
Province.  Massive subsidies are being invested in 
infrastructure and other development projects to try to raise 
people out of poverty and so, in theory, ameliorate ethnic 
conflict.  The focus of the documents, however, also illustrates 
the apparent continued failure by government authorities to 
recognize that possible material gains by what are perceived as 
being "ungrateful" Tibetans will not alone overcome grievances 
felt after years of political and religious repression.  End 
Summary. 
 
¶2. (S) Post is currently in the process of preparing summary 
translations of internal documents related to the holding of the 
first session of the Tenth People's Congress of the Ganzi 
Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in April 2008 that were 
given us by a contact.  In this and upcoming reports, we will 
look at how local authorities review and critique efforts to 
provide better public services and improve living standards in 
Ganzi.  The documents we obtained include: 
 
-- Secrecy Guidelines to be observed during the People's 
Congress. 
-- Government Work Report. 
-- Ganzi TAP Intermediate Level People's Court Work Report. 
-- Ganzi TAP People's Procuratorate Work Report. 
-- Ganzi TAP Finance Department Work Report on Execution of the 
2007 Budget and Draft 2008 Budget. 
-- Execution of the Ganzi TAP 2007 Civilian Economy and Society 
Development Plan and Draft 2008 Plan. 
-- Ganzi TAP Sichuan Province More Prosperous, Calmer and 
Healthier People Project Program  (2007 - 2015) Draft. 
 
Protests and Repression 
-------------------------- 
 
¶3. (C) Conflicts between ethnic Tibetans and government and 
Party leaders in Ganzi began to intensify over a year ago -- 
well before the outbreak of unrest in Lhasa in March 2008 that 
quickly spread to Ganzi other areas -- as local authorities 
strived to implement "patriotic education" throughout the 
prefecture (ref a).  In addition, ongoing land disputes over 
hydropower development and grasslands, exploitation of lucrative 
caterpillar fungus, as well as other social and economic factors 
added to the overall atmosphere of ethnic tension and ill will 
(ref b).   Ganzi's ongoing "patriotic education" campaign, 
modeled on earlier campaigns in the Tibetan Autonomous Region 
(TAR), intensified after a crowd at the August 1, 2007 horse 
race festival in Litang in the west of the prefecture (ref c) 
called for the return of the Dalai Lama to China.  During the 
campaign, monks have been forced to sign loyalty pledges to the 
Party and denounce the Dalai Lama.  Some comply while others 
protest or flee their monasteries. 
 
Background 
--------------- 
 
¶4. (U) Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan 
Province has a population (2007) of 955,000 or just over 1 
percent of Sichuan Province's 87 million people.  According to 
the March 2008 Ganzi TAP Statistical Bulletin (see 
 ), the ethnic breakdown of 
Ganzi is 753,000 Tibetans (87 percent), 169,000 Han (17 percent) 
and 27,000 Yi (2 percent).  Eighty-three percent of the 
population are peasants or live in the countryside.  Growth has 
been concentrated in the secondary (industrial) sector which 
officially rose 21 percent during 2007, compared with 3.7 
percent in the primary (agriculture and mining) and 5.3 percent 
 
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in the tertiary (service) sector.  Ganzi's overall GDP grew by 
13.5 percent in 2007 (Note: Sichuan province inflation, led by 
rising food prices, was about 6 percent in 2007), making 2007 
the seventh consecutive year of double digit GDP growth for 
Ganzi.  Fixed investment in Ganzi totaled 9.9 billion RMB (USD 
1.5 billion) during 2007, up 25 percent from 2006. 
 
¶5. (U) Over 10 percent of China's Tibetans live in Ganzi 
Prefecture, situated in the Kham region of traditional 
ethnographic Tibet that has historically provided many Tibetan 
merchants and warriors.  Ganzi lies between the Tibetan 
Autonomous Region, home to just under half of the ethnic 
Tibetans in China, and the other predominantly Tibetan 
prefecture in Sichuan Province, the Aba Tibetan Qiang Autonomous 
Prefecture.  Aba TQAP (pop: 874,000)  has several hundred 
thousand Tibetans concentrated in the northern half of the 
prefecture that was less seriously affected by the May 2008 
Sichuan earthquake. (Aba 2007 statistical bulletin at 
 ). 
 
Development Plans 
----------------------- 
 
¶6.  (C) Despite the material gains some ethnic Tibetans in Ganzi 
have seen from government spending on various projects and 
subsidies, repression of their religion and their monks, the 
traditional educators and moral leaders of their society, and 
insults to their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, infuriates 
them.  Resistance to "patriotic education" has occurred not only 
in the monasteries but in also in the government and Communist 
Party, as an October 2007 speech on "patriotic education" by 
Ganzi Party Secretary Liu Daoping (ref d) made clear.  Showing 
ethnic Tibetans in China the benefits of being Chinese by trying 
to lift them out of poverty through massive subsidies and 
infrastructure projects has long been an important strategy in 
the TAR and to a lesser extent in Sichuan's two majority Tibetan 
prefectures, Ganzi and Aba.  The negative public reaction of 
many Han Chinese to recent protests often appears to be anger at 
the "ungratefulness" of Tibetans for the massive subsidies 
funneled to their areas. 
 
Deep Poverty 
-------------- 
 
¶7.  (S) According to the internal report, "Ganzi TAP, Sichuan 
Province More Prosperous, Calmer and Healthier People Project 
(2007 - 2010) Draft" presented at the April 2008 Ganzi People's 
Congress, "Ganzi TAP is a region with among the deepest, most 
widespread and largest number of poor people in all of China. 
Among the 782,200 rural population in 2006, 415,500 are poor, or 
53.12 percent.  Although the total population of Ganzi TAP is 
just 1.1 percent of Sichuan's population, the prefecture has 
16.7 percent of the province's population living in abject 
poverty" and 3.1 percent living in relative poverty -- three to 
ten times the provincial average."  Another part of the report 
notes, "State policies and investments are not suitable for the 
actual situation of Ganzi TAP, so most public service investment 
still depends upon the very weak resources of local government. 
~ Under the present system health organizations depend upon 
local government for subsidies which these governments are 
unable to provide."  This report will be examined more closely 
in an upcoming Congen cable. 
 
Secrecy Rules at Ganzi Tenth People's Congress 
--------------------------------------------- -------- 
 
¶8. (S) Begin text Congen summary translation of Secrecy 
Guidelines: 
 
Secrecy is maintained at this meeting of the Ganzi Prefecture 
People's Congress according to the Secrecy Law (baomifa) in 
order to ensure that the meeting is conducted properly.   All 
documents relating to state secrets, internal materials, and 
working notes must be kept in the meeting area at all times. 
They may not be taken with you when you take part in social 
occasions or go to places of entertainment.  Any materials that 
will be released to the outside must be approved by the 
secretary general or deputy secretary general of the conference 
before release.  No documents, leaflets, photographs or other 
materials may be released without getting this approval.  The 
 
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News and Publishing Secrecy Regulations (xinwen chuban baomi 
guiding) must be strictly adhered to.   People attending the 
meeting may not discuss secret matters by telephone, radio 
communications, unencrypted telegrams or ordinary mail so that 
internal matters discussed at the meeting will not be disclosed. 
  If you discover that meeting documents or materials have been 
lost, immediately inform the secretariat.  Deliberate loss or 
disclosure will be prosecuted according to the Secrecy Law. 
 
End Text. 
 
¶9. (S) Begin text of Congen summary translation of TAP 
Government Work Report: 
 
Ganzi Prefecture People's Government Chairman Li Changping: 
Government Work Report of April 13, 2008 
 
Part One  Review of Ganzi TAP 2003 - 2007 
 
Government Subsidies Quadruple During 2003 - 2007 
--------------------------------------------- ------------- 
 
Ganzi Prefecture production rose by an average of 13.7 percent 
annually during 2003 - 2007 to 7.887 billion RMB (USD 1.1 
billion).  Prefecture government income was 1.084 billion RMB 
including 665 million RMB for local government. This is an 
increase of 57.6 percent over 2006 and five times the level of 
¶2003.  Social fixed investment rose by 24.71 percent during 2007 
and is 3.1 times the level of 2003.   Deposits at financial 
institutions rose 17.9 percent to 10.625 billion RMB in 2007, 
twice the level of 2003. 
 
A rapid rise in industrial output boosted the relative size of 
the second (industry) sector compared with the primary 
(agriculture and mining) and tertiary (service) sector, the 
relative sized of the sectors changing from 24.1:27.5:48.4 in 
2003 to 25.1:36.4:38.5 in 2007.  During the period 2003 - 2007, 
the hydroelectric and mining sectors increased production by 34 
percent annually to 5 times the 2003 level.  In 2007, Ganzi 
welcomed 3.26 million Chinese and foreign tourists and earned 
2.3 billion RMB from the tourism.  Under the program of 
integrated harmonious development, spending in support of 
agriculture rose 10  percent annually to 1.87 billion RMB; on 
social security by 21 percent annually; on public health by 28 
percent annually to 805 million RMB.  County level government 
enjoyed 71 percent of all the fiscal income in the prefecture. 
Private enterprise income grew 15 percent in 2007 to 2.837 
billion RMB. 
 
Transportation infrastructure is improving rapidly.  Test 
flights from the new Kangding airport were successful.  A 
highway between Kangding and Ya'an has been accepted as part of 
the Sichuan province highway plan.  A route within Ganzi has 
been established for the planned Tibet - Sichuan highway. 
Construction of the Jiulong 500 kilovolt power line was 
completed.  Five hundred kilovolt transformer stations will be 
built in Kangding and Danba. 
 
The urbanization rate in Ganzi Prefecture rose by three 
percentage points from 2003 to 18.3 percent in 2007.  Road and 
telecommunications infrastructure growth has accelerated.  In 
rural areas, 9000 methane gas pools were built, 6000 solar ovens 
and 5000 biomass ovens were installed.  Electric power reached 
an additional 16,364 households during 2003 - 2007 and drinking 
water supply problems for 66,500 livestock were solved. 
 
Education 
---------- 
 
During 2003 - 2007, 460 million RMB were invested to eliminate 
school fees, improve the educational system and help poor 
students who can't afford schooling beyond eight years of 
compulsory education.  Dormitories for students who must live at 
a faraway school were built.  By 2007, 432 schools in Ganzi had 
dormitories and accommodated 75,000 students.  Fifteen counties 
implemented nine years of compulsory education with a coverage 
rate of 85 percent.  Ninety-nine percent of school age children 
are in school. Ganzi Prefecture now has 140,000 students in 
elementary, middle and high schools along with 300 children from 
peasant or herder families who are studying in Ganzi High School 
 
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classes in Chengdu, Deyang and Mianyang.  Children withdrawn 
from monastery (schools) are being enrolled in public schools 
for compulsory education. 
 
Rural and Urban Incomes 
-------------------------- 
 
Vocational training is being strengthened to reduce 
unemployment.  Registered urban unemployment is 4.6 percent. 
During 2003 - 2007, a variety of subsidies and payments are 
provided including, to compensate farmers for returning cropland 
to forestland (655 million RMB total over five years); grain 
subsidy for herders who took livestock off grassland to allow it 
to recover (56.92 million RMB); and subsidies for people obeying 
family planning regulations at 134 million RMB.  In 2007, urban 
disposable income in Ganzi Prefecture was 10,178 RMB, an 
increase of 26.7 percent over 2006 and 58 percent higher than in 
¶2003.  Average 2007 income for peasants and herders was 1692 
RMB, 210 RMB and 14 percent higher than in 2006 and 64 percent 
higher than in 2003. 
 
The number of people covered under insurance plans for the five 
hazards (wuxian) -- old age, unemployment, workplace injury, 
giving birth, and medical care -- increased by 12 percent to 
204,000. 
 
Health and Life Expectancy 
---------------------------- 
 
Over 2004 - 2007, 290 million RMB was spent on building 
infrastructure to prevent and control epidemic disease.  Sixty 
five medical units were established at the county level or 
above, 270 at the township level and 500 at the village level. 
There are now four medical technicians for every 1000 people and 
3.42 sick beds.  Maternal and infant mortality declined sharply. 
 Population and family planning work was strengthened.  In 2007, 
the natural rate of increase of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous 
Prefecture population was 6.36 per thousand and is steady at a 
low level.  The average life expectancy in Ganzi TAP is 67.18 
years. 
 
Since Ganzi TAP implemented the public roads to every rural 
district policy, the length of prefecture public roads has 
reached 12,945 kilometers.  Roads to reach rural districts 
include built 234 kilometers of paved roads and 2340 kilometers 
of roads to reach villages. 
 
Ganzi TAP has contributed to work on military recruiting and 
finding employment for retired military members.  Ganzi TAP also 
strengthen its civilian military forces (minbing) emergency 
response capacity which along with the military stationed in 
Ganzi TAP and the PAP make great contributions to economic 
development and social stability. 
 
Ganzi TAP during the past four years has been fully implementing 
nationalities and religion policies.  This includes the "two 
uniteds" (we fight side-by-side and we prosper together -- 
liangge gongtong) and the "three no separations" sange bu likai 
(Congen Note: in a note at the end of the speech text, this 
slogan is explained as "the Han nationality cannot be separated 
from the minority people, the minority people cannot be 
separated from the Han people, and the various minority people 
cannot be separated one from another").  Religious work 
concentrates on the four words -- strengthening propaganda work 
on religious regulations and strengthening management of 
religious venues, religious activities, and religious personnel 
and to solve problems in the religious area such as minimum 
income, repair of religious sites, and work subsidies. 
 
Culture 
------- 
 
Cultural work:  Minorities folk art is developing rapidly in 
literature, music, dance, photography and painting.  Sculptures 
of the (Tibetan king) Gesar and (traditional Tibetan) Tanka 
illustrations have been included in the national Olympic Culture 
project.  The construction of New China bookstores, libraries, 
and cultural centers has accelerated.  Television broadcasts 
reach 84 percent of the population of Ganzi TAP.  Monitoring of 
places of entertainment and establishments providing internet 
 
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access has been strengthened.  Controls on publishing have been 
strengthened and seizures of illegal publications and 
audiovisual products have increased.  Culture-related business 
incomes rose by 27 percent to 161 million RMB during 2007. 
 
Fostering democracy:  Over the past four years, the government 
has considered 1132 proposals from the Ganzi People's Congress 
and its Standing Committee.  Village autonomy and openness in 
village affairs has been promoted.  The promotion of openness in 
factory affairs (chanwu gongkai) has helped protect the legal 
rights of workers. 
 
Government Functions 
----------------------- 
 
Improvement of government functions: the newly revised 
"Government Work Regulations" aim at improving democratic 
decision making, institutionalize the use of expert advice for 
making important decisions, government legal advisors, and 
hearings.  This is intended to make the sunlight shine on 
government work, promote openness in government work and 
openness in office work.  Separations are being implemented 
between government and business, between government and capital, 
and between government and market intermediary organizations. 
With reforms in the system for administrative permissions, the 
number of projects involving administrative permissions fell 
during 2007 from 915 to 256.  Re-evaluations of 104 projects 
granted awards or considered to have achieved a higher level 
reached standards resulted in the cancellation of 90 awards or 
ratings and the retention of 14 projects. 
 
The past four years have seen much liberation of thinking and 
more reform and opening. These have been four years of 
administration done according to the law and of strengthening 
democracy in administration. ~ These four years of breakthroughs 
have taught us that we still have many problems.  Old ideas, old 
ways of thinking and old customs still hinder our development. 
The barriers to reform deep in our system and ways of doing 
things have not yet been broken down.  Our infrastructure is 
still backward and there are many bottlenecks that need to be 
broken.  Peasants still have few sources of income and many of 
them are poor. 
 
Part Two: Suggestions for the Work of Ganzi Prefecture 
--------------------------------------------- -------------- 
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The Ganzi TAP must conscientiously implement the spirit of the 
Seventeenth Congress of the Communist Party of China, of the 
fourth session of the seventh Sichuan Provincial Party 
Committee, and of the fifth session of the Nine Ganzi TAP 
Communist Party Committee.  We need to fully bring into practice 
the scientific view of development, continue to liberate our 
thinking, uphold reform and opening, in order to build the first 
ecology-economy prefecture, to implement that the "well off and 
wealthy people" project, strongly push for the transformation of 
our mode of economic development, foster ecological agriculture, 
ecological energy industry, a superior mining industry, 
eco-tourism, eco-pharmaceuticals, and minority cultural 
industries. 
 
The basic principles are development, the livelihood of the 
people, ecology, and harmony.  Our goal is to boost the economic 
product of Ganzi TAP by 14 percent annually through 2011 to 
reach 13.5 billion RMB (USD 2 billion).  Local government 
budgets will climb by 12 percent annually to 1.36 billion RMB. 
The value of retail consumption will grow by 12.3 percent 
annually to 3.65 billion RMB.  Peasant income will grow by 12.2 
percent annually to an average of 2680 RMB and urban income will 
grow by 7.3 percent annually to 13,500 RMB. 
 
Development of Ganzi TAP natural resources aims at reaching 4 
million kilowatts of installed hydroelectric power generating 
capacity by 2011; mineral ore production of over 4 million tons; 
and over 5.4 million tourist visits. The integration of the city 
and the countryside aims at settling herders and diversifying 
their employment opportunities. 
 
In order to ensure progress, we need to stress innovation in our 
reforms, encourage outside investment, stress macro controls, 
 
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keep prices stable, optimize the system of investment, conserve 
energy and reduce emissions, and strictly manage land resources. 
 
We need to ensure social stability, democracy, and rule by law. 
We need to oppose national splittism. We need to hold high the 
banners of social stability, protection of socialist legality, 
and the basic rights of the great majority of the people.  We 
need to firmly oppose splittism, protect the unity of the 
country and of the nationalities. 
 
 ¶I.  Key Work for 2008 
 
Our goals for this year, according to the request of the fifth 
session of the Ninth Ganzi TAP Party Committee, are to increase 
the Prefecture's economic product by 16 percent, social fixed 
investment by 30 percent, local finance ordinary budgets by 30 
percent, social retail consumption by 14.2 percent.  The value 
of the industrial output of larger companies should increase by 
over 25 percent.   The disposable income of urban residents 
should increase by over 10 percent.  Peasant income should 
increase by 200 RMB or more.  Registered urban unemployment 
should be held to under 4.5 percent and the natural increase in 
the population held to 7.5 per thousand or less.  Agricultural 
land should be held at 58,100 hectares and basic farmland at 
58,900 hectares.  The energy required per 10,000 RMB of 
production should decline by 4 percent.  Consumer prices, safe 
production indices and pollution emissions should be controlled 
within the limits set by Sichuan Province. 
 
Ecological agriculture:  Science and technology can further 
improve production through better seeds, techniques and 
education of farmers.  Our goal is for use of good seeds and 
methods to be 80 percent.  Demonstration projects will lead the 
way for improved varieties of wheat and other crops.  Big 
irrigations projects are under way including dams in Qingde and 
Huding counties. 
 
Ecological energy.   As part of the "Send Sichuan Power to Other 
Provinces" project,  boost installed hydroelectric capacity to 
700,000 kilowatts in 2008 and begin building 3.8 million 
kilowatts of additional capacity and construct 500 kilovolt 
power transmission lines. 
 
Mineral industry:  Revise the section in the Ganzi TAP Eleventh 
Five Year Program regarding the mineral development as well as 
the "Ganzi Prefecture Mineral Production and Resources 
Management Regulations." Accelerate the development of ferrous 
metal smelting capacity and boost the value of minerals mined, 
selected, and smelted from 300 to 500 million RMB. 
 
Ecotourism:  Draft the "Ganzi Kangbei Tourist Area Construction 
Plan" based on the "Sichuan Shangri-La Ecotourism Area Overall 
Development Program" and the "Two Hour Circumnavigation Gongga 
Mountain Tourist Route Development Program".   We will strive to 
increase the number of star level accommodations in this area by 
at least 50 percent.   The ultimate goal is to welcome 3.5 
million tourists to this region annually and earn a tourism 
income of 2.45 billion RMB. 
 
Minorities cultural industry:  Strive to achieve prosperity for 
the minorities' cultural industry, do market promotion for the 
"thousand tanka (Tibetan painting) cultural promotion project", 
and get the Danba group of old carvings listed as a world 
heritage site.  Promote cultural exchanges with outside culture, 
exhibitions, cultural entertainment and markets. 
 
Ecological pharmaceuticals.  Strengthen the central management 
of caterpillar fungus (dongchong xiaocao), accelerate its 
transformation into an industry and the development of 
facilities to grow it in the wild and build centers for 
cultivating caterpillar fungus.   Promote the cultivation of 
materia medica for both Chinese and Tibetan medicine.  Research 
and develop standard doses for Tibetan traditional 
pharmaceuticals, establish  a database and screen Chinese and 
Tibetan medicines according to their characteristics. 
 
II.  Accelerate Infrastructure Development 
 
Transportation:  Ensure the proper operation of the Kangding 
Airport, which opened in May 2008.  Accelerate the construction 
 
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of routes G318 and S211 and of the Que'er Mountain tunnel. 
Begin construction of 500 km of rural district (xiang) level 
roads and 2500 km of village access roads.  For certain road 
segments use a variety of financing methods including private, 
joint, cooperative and built-operate-transfer so that roads can 
be built faster and more funding can be made available for road 
construction projects. 
 
Urban and rural construction:  Publicize, implement and enforce 
the "City and Countryside Planning Law" (Chengxiang guihua fa). 
Ensure that modern housing retains a local ethnic flavor so that 
the modern can be organically combined with traditional culture. 
 Study and solve the problem of supply water to cities and towns 
in the winter.  Implement the "Calming Project" (anxin 
gongcheng).  (Congen note:  a note at end of speech reads "a new 
housing reform and construction project intended to solve the 
housing problems in Ganzi TAP of government and Party cadres and 
employees.").  Strive to achieve a Ganzi TAP urbanization rate 
of 18.90 percent. 
 
Ecological construction:  Create an ecological culture, return 
some cultivated land to forest, reduce grazing to restore the 
grassland, protect marshland, and wild plants and animals. 
Complete the creation of 70,000 mu of planted forestland, 
closing mountain land and promoting the return of the forest in 
another 460,000 mu, ending grazing and restoring grassland on 6 
million mu, exterminating rats and other pests on 4 million mu 
of land.  Promote projects implementing the "Qinghai Tibet 
Plateau Southeast Green Protection Area Program" and the "Ganzi 
TAP Desertification Prevention and Alleviation Program" and 
wetlands protection. 
 
Building information infrastructure:  Improve the coverage and 
quality of cell telephone and internet network and telephone 
service, especially in tourist areas and key industrial and 
mining areas.  Improve the telephone coverage of administrative 
villages.  Improve television broadcast coverage for villages as 
well as the quality of translations into the Kham dialect of 
Tibetan. 
 
III.    Continue Deepening Reform and Opening 
 
Strengthen reforms:  Liberating our thinking, renovating 
concepts and reforming markets will means adjustments in 
resources, industry, products and projects are managed.  We need 
to optimize our economic structure, change our mode of 
development,  and uses energy conservation and reducing 
emissions are criteria for shutting down or renovating 
factories.  Land use and leases should be handled on a business 
basis and the management of state assets strengthened.  Reform 
the system for managing road upkeep to solve the problem of "If 
no one is responsible for road upkeep, we can't keep our roads 
in good condition."  Strive to solve the problem that minority 
business has difficulty attracting investment capital, strive to 
attract 7.5 billion RMB of capital. Increase opening and reform 
and seek to attract foreign investment, especially in the areas 
of transforming rural agriculture into a business (nongye 
chanyehua), ecotourism, eco-pharmaceuticals, and minority 
culture.  Seek more international exchanges and actively seek 
more government-to-government international assistance projects. 
 Strengthen economic and technical cooperation with adjacent 
developed areas.  Do more propaganda/publicity work to build the 
image of Ganzi TAP as an open place. 
 
IV.   Support Social Development 
 
Making education a priority:  Implement the policy of the Party 
and Government on exempting poor students from fees for books 
and other miscellaneous items and services and ensure funding 
for rural schools, and promote the development of compulsory 
education.  Strengthen the educational system and promote 
bilingual education.  Regulate private schools and standardize 
the management of schools with dormitories.  Increase the 
proportion of minor students who have been withdrawn from the 
monasteries who are enrolled in school.  The people's government 
should run schools that the people are satisfied with. 
 
Health:  Build the capacity of the public health system to 
handle emergencies and to prevent the outbreak of serious 
epidemic diseases.  Promote the development of the public health 
 
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system and especially of county and Prefectural level hospitals. 
 Strive to achieve universal coverage of new village cooperative 
health insurance system.  Promote therapeutic help to groups 
with special health problems.  Promote the "Year of Child and 
Maternal Health" and bring into full play the role of the Red 
Cross. 
 
Culture:  Promote the publishing industry, museums and village 
book rooms. 
 
Expand employment:  Implement the "Labor Contract Law" and the 
"Employment Promotion Law."  Pay special attention to households 
that have no one employed and to landless peasants.  Help recent 
middle and high school graduates and laid off workers to become 
self-employed.  The People's Government must constantly strive 
to protect the legal rights of workers. 
 
Poverty alleviation:  Implement poverty alleviation projects in 
68 villages, arrange for 4200 people in 755 households to move 
to other areas to improve their incomes, improve village roads, 
make drinking water safer, and improve internet, roads and 
bridges.   Strive to help 34,000 people escape abject poverty 
and achieve a decent standard of living (wenbao). 
 
Improve social security:  Improve the labor insurance system, 
the coverage of social insurance.  Make a success of the Jiulong 
County farmer and herder retirement insurance experiment.  Make 
a success of the national level experimental sites for urban and 
rural health insurance.  Ensure that all the 185,500 people 
living in abject poverty in Ganzi Prefecture are covered by the 
village guaranteed minimum income.  Ensure that there people who 
may be moving between city and countryside do get all the 
guaranteed income coming to them despite their movements. 
Gradually increase the level of village guarantees and pensions 
and the special problems of the elderly, handicapped, people 
taking care of children and disaster victims. 
 
Strengthen market oversight:  Improve the Prefectural, county 
and rural district distribution networks to end the problems 
peasants and herders have in buying and selling. Strengthen 
control of prices, food products, pharmaceuticals, and product 
management and eliminate counterfeiting so as to protect 
consumer safety.  Implement grain supports and pig livestock 
production to avoid abnormal price swings in important food 
products. 
 
Population and other work:  Promote the "Five Big Projects" in 
family planning (Congen note:  in a note at the end of the 
speech handout, this is explained as "the villager autonomy 
project; the advanced county family planning services project; 
the family planning incentives oriented project; fertility 
culture development project; and the informatization development 
management project.").  Implement the child and maternal 
development charter in order to protect the legitimate rights of 
women and children. 
 
¶V.  Striving to Build a Harmonious Ganzi 
 
Strengthen the control of society and the effectiveness of 
government at handling civil disputes.  Strengthen control of 
migrants, civil organizations, foreign NGOs, and of special 
trades (including hotels, printers, pawnshops).  Improve the 
handling of petitioners, of administrative remedies to correct 
wrongs, and make it easier for people to present complaints. 
Investigate disputes and resolve them.  Solve problems that 
people are complaining about include land takings, tearing down 
of housing, resettlement, reforms, and petitions.  Solve threats 
to stability at the grassroots when they are just budding so as 
to prevent mass incidents.  Consolidate the results of patriotic 
education, strengthen national security work, and combat enemy 
forces and elements as they try to infiltrate and cause trouble. 
 
Strengthen Efforts to Ensure Safe Production.  Publicize and 
implement the "The Emergency Response Law"  (tufa shijian 
yingdui fa), improve basic infrastructure, strengthen inspection 
to avoid accidents.  Strictly enforce safety codes on new 
construction and on the renovation and expansion of existing 
buildings. 
 
Stress national defense: Support the development of the national 
 
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defense, and the armed forces, reserves and civil forces 
(minbing). 
 
Do nationalities and religious work well:  Take the two uniteds 
(united we fight, united we prosper).   We need to develop equal 
and cooperative relationships and harmonious socialist 
relationships with and among the national minorities.  We must 
be very explicit in our opposition to national splittism.   We 
must thoroughly implement the Communist Party's nationalities 
and religion general guidelines and measures to ensure that the 
government manages religious affairs according to law. 
 
VI.   Improve Government Work 
 
People in government work must be held accountable for their 
actions.  Honesty and frugality are important.  We must that 
there is adequate oversight over and constraints on the exercise 
of power and root out corruption in government.   We need to 
constantly look for how to improve the organization of 
government and constantly learn how to make it work better.  We 
need to increase public participation in decision-making, 
solicit expert advice, legal advice, and increase openness in 
government. 
 
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BOUGHNER