Cadres dispatched to aid Tibet, Qinghai depart Beijing

Cadres recently chosen from state organs and central government-run enterprises to work in Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan-inhabited areas of Qinghai Province left Beijing for their destinations on Wednesday.

They are among the latest batch of 1,376 cadres dispatched from across the country to work in Tibet and Qinghai and help with development in both regions. Their tenures there usually last three years.

Most of the last batch of such cadres were sent in 2010.

The central government launched the cadres aid program for Tibet in 1995 and sent nearly 4,800 cadres from across the country to the southwest region in six previous batches.

A similar program was launched for Tibet's neighboring Qinghai Province in 2010 that brought an initial batch of 102 cadres from across the country to the northwest province.

Such aid programs have created closer ties between Tibet and Qinghai's Tibetan-inhabited regions and the country's central and coastal provinces, and are also helpful in boosting economic development, stability and ethnic solidarity, according to officials.