China Focus: Tibet basically eliminates absolute poverty

An agricultural expert helps promote a scientific approach of apple planting in a village in Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Pubu Chagxi)

LHASA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's Tibet Autonomous Region has basically eradicated absolute poverty, chairman of the regional government announced Tuesday.

The feat was accomplished after Tibet lifted the remaining 150,000 people out of poverty and took 19 counties off the poverty list in 2019, said Qizhala in his government work report delivered at the third session of the 11th People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region.