hugh, since the autonomous regions liberation in 1951.
Health care. The average life expectancy of Tibetan people has increased from 35.5 years before Tibets democratic reform in 1959 to now.
Death in childbirth figures fell from 5,000 in every 100,000 pregnant women before 1950 to 247.49 now.
Tibet now has 1,343 medical institutions employing 9,095 medical workers. Among them, 4,270 have licenses to practise medicine. The rate of hospital beds and medical staff per 1,000 people has reached 2.64 and 3.2, respectively. According to the regional health department, 100 percent of farmers and herders are covered by the medical care system.
Education. there was no public education in the old Tibet - less than Two percent of children had access. illiteracy was over 95%. So far, the enrollment rate in primary schools, junior high schools, senior high school, and higher-learning institutes have reached 98.2 percent, 90.7 percent, 42.96 percent and 17.4 percent, respectively. The illiteracy rate among work-aged people dropped to 4.76 percent.
Transportation, post and telecommunications, communications: There was no road in old Tibet. Last year, there were 48,611 kilometers of roads open for traffic in the region, which were 3,798 kilometers longer than the record in 2006. There were no modern communications available in old Tibet. However, by the end of last year, the number of subscribers for both fixed phones and mobile phones registered 1.44 million, 155,200 more than the year-ago figure. The telephone access rate post 52 in every 100 people.
Culture: China has earmarked 700 million yuan (100 million U.S. dollars) from the state budget for preservation of cultural relics in Tibet. Over 4,000 religious spots have been preserved and open to public. The budget for the purpose this year was set at 570 million yuan (81 million U.S. dollars), which will be used for preservation work at 22 cultural sites. Among 4,000 cultural workers in art troupes and institutions, 90 percent are Tibetans, a large number of whom are young talents.
Editor: Mu Xuequan.
"There's left, there's extreme left and there's so far left it's almost identical to the extreme right".
If you substitute right for left - then one can be so far right - it's almost identical to the extreme left.
So what does that tell us?. Other than both positions are relative to a central position. As the centre fluctuates depending on who has political power, at that given time. The more right wing a government becomes - then the accepted legal opposition - changes it's stance to accommodate the change. It itself becomes right wing.
Look at the speeches made by various labour leaders - they have as time goes by - diluted the ethos and principles - to such an extent that it becomes contrary to the beliefs of it's original founders. The bible could be used as a concrete example of this phenomenon. Yet again the same can be said for Marx and Mao. However unlike the book of superstitious nonsense - The philosophy of Marx and Engels, emphasised the developmental nature of philosophy. In other words Dialectic Materialism was in itself - in the process of change and development. Not so much a final example - as the holy books strive to achieve through fear - and it's bed partner ignorance. Rather, a starting point that includes an interpretation of history and science, with the core objective - of social justice for all inhabitants of Earth.
Left right, left right, quick march.
