Policies for Tibet Aid
I. Implementation of Preferential Policies on Finance and Taxation?
(i) If the construction of the projects of counterpart aid to Tibet occupies arable land, it is exempted from the arable land occupation tax.?
(2) In the process of the construction of the projects of counterpart aid to Tibet, all administrative fees and charges collected by the local authorities shall be exempted from levying; where the interests of enterprises, farmers and herdsmen are involved, subsidies and compensations shall be levied in accordance with the minimum standards stipulated by the State and the autonomous region; where the State stipulates that taxes and charges are levied and the autonomous region has not yet levied such taxes and charges, none of them shall be levied; and where charges and charges not stipulated by the autonomous region are not allowed to be levied by the local authorities, the local municipalities and departments shall not be allowed to levy such charges and charges. The state shall not levy any tax or fee.
The main types of fees are exempted: the local part of the land transfer premiums, mining royalties and fees, water resource fees, industrial and commercial management fees. Reduced fees are: 50% of the fixed determination fee; engineering supervision fees according to the minimum standards set by the State and the autonomous region.
(3) Sand and stone materials for construction required for the construction of counterpart aid projects in Tibet shall be reasonably mined after the local land and resource management department applies for the designation of the mining area; those belonging to self-mining and self-use shall be exempted from levying the resource tax and the locally obtained part of the resource compensation fee.?
(4) Financial institutions shall increase their support for the construction of counterpart projects in Tibet and improve financial services. For the projects of counterpart aid to Tibet with guaranteed source of funds, commercial banks may "advance loans" in a timely manner according to the construction progress of the projects; from the date of receipt of the loan application, a reply as to whether to grant a loan shall be given within 15 working days.
On the premise of implementing the transfer settlement, if the counterpart aid project really needs to withdraw cash, the commercial banks should withdraw it in time. At the same time, the financial sector should improve its services, increase its efficiency and speed up the speed of clearing funds.?
Two, land acquisition and demolition policies?
(1) Timely provision and guarantee of land for the construction of counterpart aid projects in Tibet. In accordance with the principle of making special arrangements for special matters, the state-owned land required for the construction projects will be allocated without compensation by the government after it has recovered the right to use the land; the collective unutilized land required will be allocated without compensation by the government after it has expropriated the land. The need to use agricultural land, according to the minimum standards for the expropriation of agricultural land by the local government unified expropriation and compensation to be allocated.
The land used for the construction of the project of counterpart aid to Tibet shall only be subject to land registration formalities and exempted from all administrative fees.
(2) If the use of existing urban construction land requires the demolition and relocation of the original building and its ancillary facilities, the relevant departments of the local government shall be responsible for the demolition and relocation work, and shall carry out the demolition and relocation compensation in accordance with the minimum standards stipulated by the State and the Autonomous Region.
Three, construction power and transportation security policy?
(a) The power sector should give priority to ensuring the power needed for the construction of the aid project, and exempt the power supply and distribution sticker fee and the capacity increase fee.?
(2) Transportation departments shall proactively provide capacity guarantee and high-quality transportation services for the construction of counterpart projects in support of Tibet. For the transportation of emergency and key materials and personnel in support of Tibet, priority shall be given to arranging the required capacity.
Four, simplify the procedure and improve the efficiency?
(1) Simplifying the approval procedures for projects of counterpart aid to Tibet. The project proposal and feasibility study report are combined together to be submitted for approval in accordance with the stipulated procedures, and the preliminary design and commencement report are no longer reported to the government for approval.
(2) Municipalities and departments should clearly define their respective responsibilities and tasks, and implement the preferential policy provisions with the certification procedures of the autonomous regions and prefectures (municipalities) of the Office of the Counterpart Aid for Tibet Project Construction Coordination Leading Group.
The relevant departments will no longer be included in the review of the project budget when the taxes and fees are reduced or waived. Governments at all levels should strengthen the supervision of the implementation of various preferential policies. The problems found should be investigated to the end and the relevant departments and personnel should be held accountable and corrected within a time limit.?
(3) Administrative organs and their staff at all levels, especially the leading cadres, must firmly establish a sense of the overall situation of wholeheartedly serving the work of counterpart aid to Tibet, and effectively transform their functions, improve their efficiency, and mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties to put the various preferential policies into effect.
Four, education policy
1, improve school conditions. The provinces (municipalities directly under the central government) concerned shall formulate plans for the construction and development of Tibetan classes, and increase policy support and investment, so as to bring their comprehensive conditions for running schools and their management level up to the standards of similar schools at the local provincial level. Beginning in 2004, the Ministry of Education will take the lead, with the participation of relevant departments and local governments, in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the operation of Tibetan classes nationwide.?
2. Strengthening the construction of the teaching staff and improving their treatment.
3. Mainland institutions of higher education will support Tibetan institutions of higher education.
4. Establishment of educational and training bases for Tibetan cadres in mainland institutions of higher learning. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Personnel have set up educational and training bases for Tibetan cadres in eight institutions of higher learning, including Renmin University of China, to carry out academic education for in-service cadres in Tibet who are studying for bachelor's degrees and master's degrees.
5. Strengthening the training of specialists and reserve cadres in Tibet. In accordance with the actual needs of the Tibet Autonomous Region, mainland institutions of higher education are expanding the scale of enrollment for the Tibet Autonomous Region and for Tibetan classes year by year, and special measures are being taken to cultivate talents of all nationalities with a master's degree or higher for the benefit of Tibet.?
Restrictions on aid to Tibet
The conditions for the selection and dispatch of cadres to aid Tibet are: politically reliable, with excellent ideological and political qualities; physically healthy, adapted to the plateau environment, and able to insist on working in Tibet for a long period of time; and having the organizational and leadership abilities and the business level to perform their duties competently. Cadres in support of Tibet can be both current-level cadres and cadres of the next level who meet the conditions for promotion, with particular attention paid to the selection and dispatch of reserve cadres and outstanding young cadres at all levels.
Generally they should have a university degree or above. Candidates for deputy secretary of the local party committee and secretary of the county party committee are generally no older than 45 years old; candidates for deputy county-level positions are generally no older than 40 years old; candidates for county-level directors of various bureaus are generally around 35 years old.
Extended information:
Education in Tibet: In the past, there was no education in Tibet in the modern sense, with illiteracy rate as high as 95% and school enrollment rate of only 2%. Since the founding of the PRC, education in Tibet has gained considerable development.
At the end of 2007, there were 884 elementary school in Tibet***, with 1,568 teaching points and 320,500 schoolchildren, and the enrollment rate of school-age children reached 98.2%, an increase of 1.7 percentage points compared with that of the previous year; there were 117 ordinary secondary schools, of which 135,900 students were enrolled in junior high schools, and 44,000 students were enrolled in senior high schools; and there were 7 secondary vocational schools, with 18,958 students enrolled in them.
The institutions of higher learning in the Tibet Autonomous Region include Tibet University, Tibet University for Nationalities (formerly known as Tibet Institute for Nationalities), Tibet Medical College of Tibet, and Tibet Higher College for Police Officers.
Tibetan Language Teaching: Except for a few elementary school in cities and towns where Han Chinese students predominate, the vast majority of elementary school in agricultural and pastoral areas and cities take Tibetan as one of the main subjects in their schools, practicing simultaneous teaching in Tibetan and Chinese, while other courses are taught in Tibetan.
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