Li Keqian on The Roof of the World
China Tibet Online reported that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Southern Tibet on July 25. Apparently Li went direct to Nyingchi (Nyingtri) prefecture (City) bordering Arunachal Pradesh. He visited a hamlet (Shiga village) inwards Mailing County inwards Nyingchi City; it is a novel hamlet inhabited past times Monpas. According to the press release, the inhabitants of this ‘Monpa’ hamlet possess got been relocated from 'impoverished areas'. The ‘impoverished’ percentage is located adjacent door is Metok Dzong (County). Poverty alleviation The Premier went to the novel business solid of a Tibetan named Kunsang. He sat alongside the ‘migrant’ identify unit of measurement as well as talked to the half dozen members of the household nearly their daily life.
He would possess got asked:
What is the principal rootage of income?
How much could yous brand inwards a year?
What nearly your wellness tending as well as children’s education?
What sort of difficulties produce yous nevertheless possess got now?It is said that the Premier Li listened patiently.
Kunsang told Li that his identify unit of measurement moved from Metok County, where “road move is fairly difficult”.
This is rather surprising considering that since 2013, when a tunnel was opened, the Chinese propaganda has been insisting on the ‘changes’ inwards Metok, principally mentioning amend communications. Read my post, Metok as well as the Tourist Boom
The inquiry is why to motion people to a nearby County, if the province of affairs had improved as well as hence much inwards the commencement place?
Kunsang explained to the Premier that his identify unit of measurement has directly an income of 150,000 yuan a twelvemonth (US $ 2,400), thank yous to farming as well as tourism. Further, the State “ensured wellness tending service as well as children’s educational activity program.”
We are told that at that topographic point are a full of 72 households inwards the novel hamlet as well as 90% of families possess got similar income.
Li was said to possess got been actually pleased “to consider that the villagers possess got shape off poverty, though the relocation computer programme as well as lived a prosperous life.”
The Premier wished the identify unit of measurement an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than prosperous life inwards the future.
It is hard to empathize why this identify unit of measurement was shifted from Metok to Mainling County.
Were they creating problems for the Chinese authorities inwards Metok, nigh the Indian border?
It is possible.
Metok, similar several other places on the edge (Yumed, Tsona, Lepo, Marmang, Rima, etc) has been the focus of real generous investments from the Central Government, the local authorities every bit good every bit dissimilar Provincial Governments.
So, it is doubtful if ‘poverty alleviation’ is the solely reason.
Education
Li Keqiang spoke to Kunsang’s daughter, the six-year-old Yeshe Drolma, as well as asked her if she was going to going to school.
The respond was obvious every bit the Party would possess got non selected an 'illiterate' identify unit of measurement to have the Premier.
The niggling Yeshe Drolma, dressed inwards Monpa costume, said that she was inwards the senior degree of the kindergarten.
Li asked her to write a few words (all this must possess got been scripted inwards item before).
Yeshe wrote her hollo both inwards Chinese as well as Tibetan on a newspaper as well as showed it to Li who said, “Wish yous could larn hard as well as grow to last every bit intelligent as well as beautiful every bit your hollo says”.
According to the Chinese website Yeshe Drolma agency ‘Intelligent Fairy’.
In fact, Drolma is Tara, the Mother of the Tibetans.
Reallocation of restive populations
This ‘reallocation’ of population reminded me an article published on July 6 inwards The People's Daily.
It speaks of the province of affairs inwards Xinjiang as well as said that Beijing has relocated “461,000 poverty-ridden residents to run inwards other parts of the percentage during the commencement quarter of the year.”
An ‘expert’ explained to the mouthpiece of the Party that it is a bid to ‘improve social stability as well as alleviate poverty’. The study asserted that the Xinjiang authorities planned to farther transfer 100,000 residents from southern Hotan as well as Kashgar prefectures past times 2019, to acquire employed somewhere else.
Yu Shaoxiang, unopen to other ‘expert’ at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, admitted to The Global Times: “poverty alleviation inwards Xinjiang is to a greater extent than hard compared to other places because, aside from poverty, Xinjiang likewise faces ethnic issues.”
Yu farther commented: “Organizing people to run away from habitation would assist them amend integrate alongside the residuum of China, as well as accept their advanced skills dorsum to Xinjiang later. The relocation likewise helps hold regional security.”
Xinhua News Agency said that inwards 2017, ‘occupational educational activity programs’ covered 1.26 1000000 people inwards Kashgar as well as Hotan, where 47,000 misfortunate people constitute jobs land 317,400 individuals as well as 331 villages were lifted out of poverty. It is evidently a pretext inwards an surface area which is the hub the Belt as well as Road Initiative (BRI).
It is clear that reallocation is linked alongside ‘ethnic issue’.
It is rather worrying knowing that the catch of the Premier to Tibet takes identify simply earlier the yearly summertime retreat of the Party’s transcend bosses inwards Beidaihe, which is ever the occasion to speak over ‘new’ policies.
Will reallocation of Tibetans withing Tibet from edge areas last discussed?
There is no dubiety that the Mainling Country is less strategic than the Metok area, though Bayi, the PLA garrison is non located far away (it is the neighbouring County inwards Nyingchi).
A remark
It is commonly the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Yu Zhengsheng as well as directly Wang Yang) who is responsible for 'looking after' Tibet.
The caput of the United Front Work Department (Sun Chunlan for example) likewise regularly'inspects' the Roof of the World.
It is commonly non the job/responsibility of the Chinese Premier to hold off into Tibet affairs.
One to a greater extent than argue why this catch is real special.
First catch of a Premier
Another consideration, Li Keqiang, No two inwards the all-powerful inwards the Standing Committee of the Politburo, is the 7th Premier of China.
Before him, Zhou Enlai (1949–1976), Hua Guofeng (1976–1980), Zhao Ziyang (1980–1988), Li Peng (1988–1998), Zhu Rongji (1998–2003) as well as Wen Jiabao (2003–2013), served every bit Premiers.
None of them visited Tibet.
Why to transportation the Premier if at that topographic point was non something big cooking?
We volition possess got to hold off a few days (or months) to know more.
The other 'important' catch to Tibet were:
Marshall Chen Yi inwards 1956
Hu Yaobang inwards May 1980 (see my post)
Jiang Zemin inwards 1990 (see my article)
Xi Jinping inwards 2011 (see my post)
and Hu Jintao when he was Party Secretary of the TAR at the halt of the 1980s (see my post)But relocations of recalcitrant Tibetans would last dreadful system as well as non a goodness signed for the wellness of the People’s Republic, which appears to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than nervous.
A few questions
Since when is the Chinese Premier looking after Tibetan affairs?
Will Li come across the Chinese Panchen Lama Gyatsen Norbu land inwards Tibet?
Will he catch Bayi, the Chinese garrison inwards Nyingchi City as well as come across the edge troops?
Will he visits other Prefectures/Cities inwards the Autonomous Region?
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