--Health care: the average life expectancy of the Tibetan population has increased from 35.5 years before the democratic reform in 1959 to 67 years; the maternal mortality rate has also been reduced from 5,000/100,000 at the beginning of the founding of the new China to 247.49/100,000 in 2006, and the average life expectancy of the Tibetan population has increased from 35.5 years before the democratic reform in 1959 to 67 years. Tibet currently **** has 1,343 health institutions, with 9,095 health technicians, including 4,270 practicing physicians. The number of hospital beds and health technicians per 1,000 people has reached 2.64 and 3.20 respectively. All farmers and herdsmen in Tibet have taken part in cooperative medical care in agricultural and pastoral areas based on free medical care.
--Population and Social Security: The population of old Tibet grew slowly, and the general public basically did not enjoy any social security. For more than 200 years before the 1950s, the population hovered around one million, and in 1953 the local government declared the population of Tibet to be one million, with an increase of only 5.8 million in 200 years. According to the latest sample survey on population changes, the total population of the region was estimated to be 2.8415 million at the end of 2007, a net increase of 3.15 million compared with the previous year; the total number of Tibetans has doubled compared with that before the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region; and the number of people participating in various kinds of social insurance in towns and cities has reached more than 330,000 at present.
--Education: In old Tibet, there was not a single school in the modern sense of the word, the enrollment rate of school-age children was less than 2%, and the illiteracy rate of young and middle-aged people was as high as 95%. At present, 73 counties in the region have fully completed the "universal six", population coverage rate of 100%, 63 counties to meet the national "two basic" acceptance standards, "universal nine" population coverage rate of 90.2%, compulsory education is universal. 90.2%, the level of compulsory education has been further improved; the enrollment rates of elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and higher education have reached 98.2%, 90.7%, 42.96% and 17.4%, respectively, and the illiteracy rate of the young and middle-aged has dropped to 4.76%.
--Social life: According to the statistics of the old Tibetan local government, about 90% of the population of Tibet did not have their own houses in 1950. Nowadays, except for a few pastoral areas, all families in Tibet have fixed housing, aiming to improve the living conditions of the masses, in 2006 Tibet began the implementation of the farmers and herdsmen housing project has allowed 11.4 million households, more than 570,000 farmers and herdsmen to move into new homes. Last year, the per capita income of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen reached 2,788 yuan, while the per capita income of urban residents reached 11,131 yuan. According to the statistics of 2006, the number of civilian automobiles in Tibet amounted to 143,900, an increase of 35.2 percent from the end of the previous year, and according to the calculation of the total population of 2.81 million at that time, every 20 people in Tibet owned a private car.
--Economic and social development: old Tibet, there is no modern sense of industry, agricultural development is slow. 2007, Tibet grain crops planted an area of 171.77 thousand hectares, an increase of 0.11 thousand hectares over the previous year; the annual industrial value-added realization of 2.571 billion yuan, an increase of 17.1 percent over the previous year. Last year, *** received 4.02 million tourists, an increase of 60% over the previous year, realizing total tourism revenue of 4.8 billion yuan, an increase of 73.3%, equivalent to 14.2% of the region's GDP, an increase of 4.6 percentage points over the previous year.
--Transportation, postal and telecommunication, communication: the old Tibet did not have a highway, last year, the total mileage of the Tibetan highway 48,611 kilometers, an increase of 3,798 kilometers over the previous year. The old Tibet has no modern sense of communication, last year the end of Tibet fixed and cell phone users totaled 144.29 million, 15.52 million more than the end of the previous year. The telephone penetration rate reached 52 per 100 people.
--Democratic rights: In 1961, universal suffrage, which had never been practiced in the history of Tibet, was introduced in all parts of the country, and for the first time the serfs and slaves were given the democratic right to be masters of their own house; since the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in 1965, the people of Tibet have been enjoying the right to elect and to be elected as conferred by the constitution and the law, and the Tibetan and other ethnic minority cadres have been made the chief officials of the TAR. and other minority cadres have become the bulk of the cadres in the TAR. According to statistics from the organization and personnel departments of the Tibet Autonomous Region, as of the end of 2006, there were 62,211 Tibetan and other minority cadres in the region, accounting for 69.36 per cent of the total number of cadres in the region; and there were 32,987 professional and technical personnel of Tibetan and other minority nationalities, accounting for 74.39 per cent of the total number of professional and technical personnel in the region.
--Cultural aspects: the state has invested a total of more than 700 million yuan in cultural relics protection projects in Tibet, repairing and opening up more than 1,400 places of religious activities; in 2008, 5.7 billion yuan will be invested in the repair of 22 cultural relics and ancient buildings. At present, the whole region has more than 4,000 cultural and artistic workers of various kinds, of which Tibetans account for more than 90%, and a large number of artistic talents stand out.