Tibet Autonomous Region plans to invest three billion yuan for constructing 30,000 sets of houses for low-and-medium wage earners, in the coming three years.

According to Chen Jinjie, head of Tibet Construction Department, 10 billion yuan will go for 10,000 sets of residence houses for low-and-medium wage earners, and the rest are for 20,000 sets of houses for grass-roots workers.

Public housing project in Tibet has dramatically improved the housing condition, especially for low-income people in recent years.

Low-recent house of Tibet, which is 13 square meters large per capita, is mainly for the needy state-owned staff and urban dwellers with the lowest income.

Besides, Tibet aims to extend the scope of beneficiary from family with the lowest income to low-income and the coverage will further expand to county and village, by the end of 2010.

Low-income house policy started in Tibet in 2007 with 477 million yuan investment, among which 369 million yuan was financed by the autonomous region. A total of 4,560 sets of houses were built at that time with a coverage of more than 350,000 square meters.

The first phase of low-rent house has finished construction and passed acceptance, 3,832 people have moved into the new houses.

(China Tibet Information Center January 13, 2009)