五、大力增進人民福祉
V. Improving People's Welfare

在民族區域自治制度下，西藏經濟社會發展不斷邁上新臺階，實現了跨越式發展。經濟的快速發展和社會的全面進步，使西藏各族人民得到實實在在的好處，人民的生存權和發展權得到有效保障，社會和諧安寧。
Under the system of regional ethnic autonomy, Tibet's economic and social development has achieved leapfrog development by constantly reaching higher levels. Rapid economic growth and comprehensive social progress have brought real benefits to all ethnic groups in Tibet, effectively guaranteeing their right to subsistence and development, and maintaining the harmony and stability of its society.

——現代化發展水平日益提高
-- Tibet's modernization level has steadily risen.

西藏生產總值由1965年的3.27億元增加到2014年的920.8億元，增長281倍。1994年以來，西藏地區生產總值連續20年保持兩位數增長，年均增速高達12.4%。1965年西藏地方財政收入僅為2239萬元，2014年達到164.75億元，年均增長高達14.46%，自我發展的能力不斷增強。全區工業增加值由1965年的0.09億元增加到2014年的66.16億元，增長735倍，年均增長14.4%。第二產業增加值在地區生產總值中的占比由1965年的6.7%提高到2014年的36.6%。2014年，全區社會消費品零售總額達364.51億元，比1965年的0.89億元增長了409倍，以年均13.1%的速度遞增；進出口總額達22.55億美元，比1965年的0.07億美元增長了321倍，年均增長12.5%。
Tibet's GDP soared from 327 million yuan in 1965 to 92.08 billion yuan in 2014, a 281-fold increase. Since 1994, the local GDP has grown at an annual rate of 12.4 percent on average, registering double-digit growth for 20 consecutive years. Local fiscal revenues increased from 22.39 million yuan in 1965 to 16.475 billion yuan in 2014, an average annual increase of 14.46 percent, further enhancing Tibet's self-development capabilities. The Region's industrial added value skyrocketed from nine million yuan in 1965 to 6.616 billion yuan in 2014, a 735-fold increase, or an average annual growth of 14.4 percent, and the proportion of secondary industry's added value in the local GDP rose from 6.7 percent in 1965 to 36.6 percent in 2014. Total retail sales of consumer goods increased from 89 million yuan in 1965 to 36.451 billion yuan in 2014, a 409-fold increase, or an average annual growth of 13.1 percent. The total volume of Tibet's foreign trade rose from US$7 million in 1965 to US$2.255 billion in 2014, a 321-fold increase, or an average annual growth of 12.5 percent.

藏醫藥業、民族手工業、綠色食飲品和新能源等特色產業得到優先發展。目前，7個產業帶初步形成，建設農業標準化示范區20個，培育地市級以上農牧業產業化龍頭企業95家。建工、礦業、旅游、藏藥、商貿等九大集團相繼組建。藏藥產業初具規模，全區藏藥企業18家，藏藥品種360多個。天然飲用水產量突破30萬噸，成為新的經濟增長點。2014年接待游客1553萬人次，比旅游業起步時的1980年增長4436倍，年均增長28.0%；實現旅游總收入204億元，增長20400倍，年均增長32.8%。
Priority has been given to such industries with Tibetan characteristics as Tibetan medicine, folk handicrafts, green food and drinks, and new energy. At present, seven industrial belts have taken shape, 20 demonstration zones of standardized agriculture have been established, and 95 agricultural and animal husbandry industrialization leading enterprises at or above the prefectural level cultivated. Nine big groups have been established, one by one, including construction and engineering, mining, tourism, Tibetan medicine, and commerce and trade. Tibetan medicine industry has taken shape, with 18 pharmaceutical enterprises producing more than 360 kinds of drugs. The output of natural drinking water has exceeded 300,000 tons, making the industry a new economic growth point. In 2014, Tibet received 15.53 million tourists, a 4,436-fold increase compared with 1980 when the Region first opened to tourism, or an average annual increase of 28 percent. Tourism revenue has now reached 20.4 billion yuan, a 20,400-fold increase or an average annual increase of 32.8 percent.

以公路、鐵路、航空為主的綜合交通運輸體系基本形成，交通更加便利。以拉薩為中心，東連四川、云南，西接新疆，北連青海，南通印度、尼泊爾，地市相通，縣鄉連接的公路交通網絡基本建成。2014年底，全區公路通車里程達到7.5萬公里，次高級以上路面里程達到8891公里，占12.6%。全區74個縣中65個縣通了柏油路，占88%；690個鄉鎮通公路，通達率99.7%；5408個行政村通公路，通達率99.2%。格爾木至拉薩、拉薩至日喀則鐵路相繼通車運營，拉薩至林芝鐵路開工建設。組建了西藏航空公司，區內通航機場5個，8家航空公司在藏運營，開通國內外航線48條，通航城市達33個，形成以拉薩貢嘎機場為中心，昌都邦達、林芝米林、阿里昆莎和日喀則和平機場為支線的五大民用機場網絡。
A comprehensive transportation system including roads, railways and aviation has been built, further facilitating Tibet's transportation. Radiating from Lhasa to Sichuan and Yunnan in the east, Xinjiang in the west, Qinghai in the north, and India and Nepal in the south, a road transportation network that connects prefectures, cities, counties, and townships has taken shape. At the end of 2014, the total length of roads open to traffic reached 75,000 km, 8,891 km of which have sub-high-grade surfaces or better, accounting for 12.6 percent of the total. Sixty-five, or 88 percent, of all 74 counties in Tibet had access to asphalt roads. As many as 690 townships and 5,408 administrative villages could be reached by road, respectively accounting for 99.7 percent and 99.2 percent of the total. The Golmud-Lhasa and Lhasa-Shigatse railways had opened to traffic, and the construction of the railway connecting Lhasa and Nyingchi started. Tibet Airlines was established, with five airports, and eight airlines operating in Tibet. An airport network has taken shape in Tibet, with Gongkar Airport in Lhasa as the main hub, and Bangda Airport in Qamdo, Menling Airport in Nyingchi, Gunsa Airport in Ngari and Heping Airport in Shigatse as the branches, catering to 48 domestic and international air routes that link Tibet with 33 cities in China and the rest of the world.

以水電為主，地熱、風能、太陽能等多能互補的新型能源體系全面建設。拉薩環網工程和輸變電工程、青藏直流聯網工程、川藏電網聯網工程建成投入運行，結束了西藏電網孤網運行的歷史；直孔電站、獅泉河電站、雪卡電站、羊八井地熱電站、拉薩火力發電等應急電源項目建成發電，區內裝機容量最大的水電項目藏木水電站發電，能源點建設加快推進。2014年全區電力裝機規模達到169.7萬千瓦，全年發電量32.2億千瓦時。組織實施了那曲尼瑪縣、雙湖縣及阿里7縣1鎮無電地區電力建設項目，累計示范推廣光伏系統3萬套，建設光伏電站90座，太陽能路燈1200多盞，總裝機容量8000千瓦。2012年底，實現行政村全部通電，基本解決無電人口用電問題。
An extensive energy system has now been formed with hydropower as the mainstay, backed up by geothermal, wind, and solar energy sources. Lhasa's Ethernet ring network project and power transmission and transformation project, the Qinghai-Tibet Power Grid Interconnection Project, and the Sichuan-Tibet Interconnection Project have officially gone into operation, so consigning to history the previously solitary operation of Tibet Autonomous Region power line. Such emergency power supply projects as Zhikong Hydropower Station, Shiquanhe Hydropower Station, Xueka Hydropower Station, Yangbajain Geothermal Power Station, and Lhasa's thermal power plant have been built and put into operation. Zam Hydropower Station, the hydroelectric project with the biggest installed capacity in the Region, has also become operational. Moreover, the building of energy bases was facilitated. In 2014 the total installed generating capacity reached 1.697 million kw, and the annual output of generated electricity came to 3.22 billion kwh. Tibet initiated and carried out power construction projects in Nyima County and Tsonyi in Nagchu, and in seven counties and one township in Ngari that were without electricity. The Region has demonstrated and promoted 30,000 photovoltaic (PV) systems, established 90 PV power plants, and more than 1,200 solar streetlamps, with a total installed capacity of 8,000 kw. By the end of 2012, all administrative villages had access to electricity, and the problem of electricity access had been basically solved.

以光纜、衛星、網絡為主的現代通訊網絡體系已逐步建立健全。現在的西藏已進入了衛星、光纜、網絡、信息新時代。全區光纜線路長度達到9.7萬公里，其中長途光纜線路為3萬多公里，累計實現74個縣、668個鄉鎮通光纜，鄉鎮通光纜率為97.8%；實現5261個行政村移動信號覆蓋。全區互聯網用戶達到217.7萬戶，普及率為70.7%，農牧區移動互聯網覆蓋率達到65%以上。
Tibet has now entered the information age, having established a modern telecommunications network with optical cable satellites and the Internet as the backbone. The total length of optical cable lines in the Region has reached 97,000 km, among which over 30,000 km are long-distance optical cable lines. Optical cables have now reached 668 townships and towns in 74 counties, or 97.8 percent of all townships and towns in Tibet, and mobile phone signals cover 5,261 administrative villages. The number of Internet user households has reached 2.177 million, with an Internet penetration of 70.7 percent, and mobile Internet coverage in farming and pastoral areas has surpassed 65 percent.

——人民幸福指數大幅提升
-- People's happiness quotient has been greatly improved.

城鄉居民收入快速增長，人民生活更加充實富裕。2014年，城鎮居民人均可支配收入達22016元，比1978年的565元增長38倍，年均增長10.7%；農牧民人均可支配收入7359元，年均增長10.9%。城鎮化水平不斷提升。1982年第三次人口普查時城鎮人口所占總人口比重僅為9.48%，1990年提高到11.52%，2000年為19.43%，2010年達到22.67%。隨著人民生活逐步富裕，消費結構開始多樣化，冰箱、彩電、電腦、洗衣機、摩托車、手機等消費品進入了尋常百姓家。富裕起來的農牧民蓋起了舒適寬敞的新房，有的還購買了汽車。廣播、電視、通信、互聯網等現代信息傳遞手段，與全國乃至世界同步發展，已經深入到人民群眾的日常生活之中。在國家統計局、中國郵政集團公司和中央電視臺聯合舉辦的“ＣＣＴＶ經濟生活大調查”中，拉薩市連續5年被評為中國幸福指數最高的城市。
People in both urban and rural areas are living a richer and fuller life as their incomes increase rapidly. In 2014 the per capita disposable income of urban residents reached 22,016 yuan, a 38-fold increase, or an average annual increase of 10.7 percent compared with 565 yuan in 1978; and that of farmers and herdsmen was 7,359 yuan, representing an average annual increase of 10.9 percent. The level of urbanization has also steadily risen. The proportion of urban population during the third population census in 1982 was 9.48 percent, but this percentage increased to 11.52 in 1990, to 19.43 in 2000 and to 22.67 in 2010. Along with improvements to the people's livelihood, diversified consumption patterns have appeared, and such consumer goods as refrigerators, color TV sets, computers, washing machines, motorcycles, and mobile phones have entered ordinary households. Many farmers and herdsmen have become well-off and built new houses; some have even bought automobiles. Radio, television, telecommunications, the Internet and other modern information transmission means, which are at the same level as that of the country and the rest of the world, are now part of Tibetans' daily life. According to the "CCTV Economic Life Survey" jointly hosted by the National Bureau of Statistics, China Post Group, and China Central Television (CCTV), Lhasa has topped the "happiness index" in China for five consecutive years.

城鄉居民居住條件得到極大改善。為改善城鄉居民居住條件，西藏從2006年起在全國率先提出全區實施農牧民安居工程，到2013年，全區累計投資278億元，完成46.03萬戶的農牧民安居工程建設，使230萬農牧民群眾住上了安全適用的房屋，農牧民人均居住面積達到30.4平方米，生活條件得到歷史性改善。自治區不斷加大對周轉房建設的投入力度，共建設周轉房66076套，總建筑面積404.42萬平方米，總投資88.09億元。積極實施拉薩供暖工程，自2012年開工以來，建成燃氣主干管網63公里、燃氣次干管網256公里、庭院管網1200余公里，已完成居民小區及單位供暖項目建設768個、10.7萬戶、2136萬平方米，拉薩城區基本實現供暖全覆蓋，徹底結束了祖祖輩輩靠燒牛糞取暖的歷史。
Both urban and rural residents' living conditions have greatly improved. Tibet took the lead in 2006 in initiating low-income housing projects for local farmers and herdsmen. By the end of 2013, the Region had appropriated 27.8 billion yuan and finished building 460,300 low-income houses. As many as 2.3 million farmers and herdsmen had moved into safe modern houses, their per capita living space having reached 30.4 sq m, so marking an historic improvement in their living conditions. Constantly increasing input into the building of relocation housing, Tibet has built 66,076 more such houses covering 4.0442 million sq m, with an input of 8.809 billion yuan. The Region has proactively carried out the city heating project in Lhasa. Since initiation of the project in 2012, Tibet has built 63 km of a main gas pipe network, 256 km of a secondary pipe network and more than 1,200 km of a courtyard pipe network. It has completed 768 heating projects for residential areas and workplaces, so benefiting 107,000 households in a 21.36 million sq m area. The heating system has become available to almost all urban areas in Lhasa. The burning of dung for heating is now history.

農牧民人居環境整潔美麗。大力實施水、電、路、氣、通訊、郵政、廣播電視、優美環境“八到農家”工程，基本解決農牧民的安全飲水問題。實現了村村通電話、村村通廣播電視、鄉鄉通寬帶，完成4500個行政村人居環境建設，近24萬戶農牧民用上了清潔的沼氣能源，農牧區碘鹽覆蓋率達到95%以上。2010年，自治區按照“清潔水源、清潔田園、清潔家園”的要求，開展人居環境和綜合環境整治工作。截至目前，已完成投資44億元，實施4500個行政村村容村貌及環境整治。
Farmers and herdsmen are living in a clean and beautiful environment. Tibet has also improved its facilities in the areas of water, electricity, highways, gas, telecommunications, postal services, radio and television, and the environment in farming and pastoral areas, basically solving the problem of drinking water safety. It has also realized telephone communication and radio and TV coverage in all villages, and broadband connection in all townships. Tibet has improved the living environment of 4,500 administrative villages. Almost 240,000 farmer and herdsman households use clean biogas, and more than 95 percent of rural households cook with iodized salt. Since 2010, work on improving the people's living environment and the ecological environment has been carried out in Tibet according to the requirement of "clean water, clean farm and clean home." At present programs for improving the appearance of villages and the ecological environment have been carried out in 4,500 administrative villages with an input of 4.4 billion yuan.

貧困人口大幅減少。2006－2014年實施貧困戶、大骨節病搬遷和“興邊富民行動”，使11.63萬戶貧困群眾人均住房面積增加了20%－30%。昔日許多低矮、陰暗、人畜混雜居住的土坯房變成了安全適用的住房。扶貧開發項目的實施，使57.8萬戶、260萬人受益。新修和維修鄉村道路3223公里，水渠3371.6公里、水塘347座232.94萬立方米，新增和改善灌溉面積30萬畝，新建農用橋883座、12834米，溫室4583座，棚圈3.5萬套。改良天然草場、草場圍欄、人工種草28.78萬畝，貧困地區生態環境進一步改善。農牧民收入明顯增加，2003年以來連續12年保持了兩位數增長。生活在每人每年2300元（2010年不變價）的國家農村扶貧標準下的全區農村貧困人口由2010年的117萬人減少到2014年底的61萬人，累計減少貧困人口56萬人。貧困人口占全區農牧民人口比例，由2010年的49.2%下降至2014年的23.7%。2006年以來，直接、間接落實強農惠農補貼資金累計達到706.36億元，落實糧食直補資金1.89億元，落實農資綜合補貼3.58億元，落實家電、家具下鄉補貼資金3.4億元。這些補貼政策提高了農牧民群眾收入，提高了農牧民的購買能力，提升了農牧民的生活品質。
The poverty-stricken population has been substantially reduced. From 2006 to 2014, Tibet launched the "Campaign to Develop Border Areas and Improve the Lives of the People," relocated poverty-stricken families and people with Kashin-Beck disease, and increased by 20 to 30 percent the per capita living area of 116,300 poverty-stricken families. Many people have moved from small, dark, adobe houses, where they lived alongside livestock, to safe, more suitable homes. Poverty relief projects have benefited 2.6 million people in 578,000 households. Tibet has built and renovated a total of 3,223 km of country roads, 3,371.6 km of irrigation channels, 347 ponds covering a total 2.3294 million sq m; it has built 883 bridges for agricultural purposes of a total 12,834 m in length, 4,583 greenhouses, and 35,000 pens. It has also installed or improved irrigation systems for 300,000 mu (one mu = 1/15 hectare) of farmland. Tibet has moreover improved the ecological environment of poverty-stricken areas, and the total area of fenced grassland, improved grassland, and planted grassland has reached 287,800 mu. Since 2003, the income of farmers and herdsmen has recorded double-digit growth for 12 consecutive years. The poverty-stricken population - people with a per capita per annum income of less than 2,300 yuan (at constant price of 2010) - has fallen from 1.17 million in 2010 to 610,000 at the end of 2014. The proportion of poverty-stricken population in the Region's total population of farmers and herdsmen fell from 49.2 percent in 2010 to 23.7 percent in 2014. Since 2006, the Region has directly or indirectly allocated a total of 70.636 billion yuan in subsidies to strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, 189 million yuan in subsidies to grain production, 358 million yuan as general subsidies for purchasing agricultural supplies, and 340 million yuan as subsidies for purchasing home appliances and furniture. Those subsidies have increased the income and purchasing power of farmers and herdsmen and improved their living standards.

社會保障事業不斷邁上新臺階。實施積極的就業政策，就業率保持較高水平。2014年，西藏城鎮登記失業率控制在2.5%以內，新增就業4.3萬人，提供高校畢業生公職崗位1.1萬個，各援藏省市和中央企業共提供就業崗位5335個，1500多名高校畢業生實現了區外就業，全區公益性崗位總量達3萬個，通過公益性崗位安置就業26018人，2500多戶零就業家庭實現了動態消零，就業形勢穩定。近年來，覆蓋城鄉居民的社會保障體系全面建立。繼續加強“五大險種”保障制度，完善城鄉居民社會養老保險制度，擴大最低生活保障，實施免費意外保險，建立了寺廟僧尼基本養老和醫療保險制度，全區各項社會保險參保達260.6萬人次。企業退休職工基本養老金月人均水平達3338元，居全國前列。城市居民最低生活保障標準提高至每月534元，農村低保標準提高至每年2231元，五保戶供養標準提高至每年3873元，分散供養標準提高至每年3874元，集中收養孤兒基本生活保障標準達到月人均1200元。及時發放城鄉困難群眾慰問金。2013年底，全區各類社會福利機構共有263個，公辦兒童福利院8所，民辦兒童福利院2所。72%有意愿的五保對象實現集中供養，5900多名孤兒得到有效救助。
Tibet's social security has entered a new stage. Due to its proactive employment policy, Tibet has maintained a high employment rate. In 2014 the registered urban unemployment rate was maintained at below 2.5 percent, and newly increased urban employment totaled 43,000. Graduates from institutions of higher learning were provided with 11,000 jobs in the public sector, while provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and centrally managed state-owned enterprises offered 5,335 job vacancies. More than 1,500 graduates from Tibet found jobs in other parts of the country. The number of public welfare jobs in the Region totaled 30,000, and 26,018 people found jobs in public welfare sectors. More than 2,500 zero-employment households were provided with jobs in a timely manner, and the employment situation remained stable. In recent years, the social security system that covers both urban and rural residents has been established in an all-round way. Tibet strengthened the security system of "five major insurance types" (endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, medical insurance, and maternity insurance), improved the social endowment insurance system for urban and rural residents, expanded the basic living allowance, implemented free accident insurance, and established the basic endowment insurance and medical insurance systems for monks and nuns. These moves have benefited 2.606 million insurance participants. The basic old-age pension for enterprise retirees in Tibet reached 3,338 yuan per person per month, one of the highest in the country. The basic living allowance for urban residents was raised to 534 yuan per person per month and to 2,231 yuan for rural residents per person per year. The yearly payment to those who enjoy the "five guarantees" (for food, clothing, medical care, housing and funeral expenses) was significantly raised to 3,873 yuan per person per year, the standard of rural decentralized support rose to 3,874 yuan per person per year, and the minimum subsistence guarantees for children housed in orphanages was 1,200 yuan per person per month. Condolence money was also timely extended to impoverished urban and rural residents. By the end of 2013, there were 263 social welfare organizations, eight state-run children's welfare homes, and two private children's welfare homes in Tibet. Centralized support covered 72 percent of those who enjoy the "five guarantees," and more than 5,900 orphans were effectively supported.

醫療衛生事業快速發展。目前，西藏已經建成了中、西、藏醫結合，以拉薩為中心、遍布城鄉的醫療衛生網。以免費醫療為基礎的農牧區醫療制度覆蓋全體農牧民，全區已建成71個縣醫院和678個鄉鎮衛生院，覆蓋城鄉的醫療衛生服務體系逐步完善。2014年底，全區醫療衛生機構發展到1430所，每千人病床數和衛生技術人員數分別達到3.79張和4.08人，建成了覆蓋縣鄉村三級的醫療衛生網絡。城鎮職工、城鎮居民基本醫療保險年度最高支付限額分別提高到30萬元、20萬元。城鎮居民基本醫療保險財政補助標準提高到年人均380元，政策范圍內住院費用支付比例達到75%左右。農牧民人口100%被納入到以免費醫療為基礎的醫療保障體系之中，農牧區醫療政府補助標準達到年人均420元，最高報銷補償限額達6萬元，政策范圍內報銷補償比例達到80%以上。寺廟僧尼等人群全部納入基本醫療保險范圍。取消了醫療救助起付線，率先在全國實現了醫療救助城鄉一體化和社會全覆蓋。對城鄉居民實施免費健康檢查，城鄉居民健康檔案建檔率達99%。2013年，孕產婦死亡率和嬰兒死亡率分別下降到154.51／10萬人和19.97‰。人均壽命由20世紀50年代的35.5歲增加到68.17歲。全區實現了基本消除碘缺乏病目標。
Tibet's medical undertakings are also rapidly improving. A medical and health network that integrates traditional Chinese, Western and Tibetan medicines has been established in Tibet, covering all cities and villages in the Region, with Lhasa as the center. The Region has built 71 county hospitals and 678 township clinics that provide free basic medical services to all farmers and herdsmen. The medical service system that covers all urban and rural areas is improving, and a three-tier medical service network that covers counties, townships and villages is in place. By the end of 2014, there were 1,430 medical organizations in Tibet, and 3.79 hospital beds and 4.08 medical workers for every 1,000 residents. Maximum payment of basic medical insurance for urban employees reached 300,000 yuan, and for urban residents 200,000 yuan. The fiscal subsidy standard for urban residents' basic medical insurance increased to 380 yuan per person every year, and the inpatient reimbursement rate for urban residents covered by the medical insurance policy reached 75 percent. All farmers and herdsmen in Tibet are now covered by a medical system based on free medical service. It provides each farmer and herdsman with an annual medical allowance of 420 yuan, and an 80 percent reimbursement rate for medical services that the policy covers, with a maximum medical reimbursement of 60,000 yuan. All monks and nuns are included in the basic medical insurance system. Tibet has abolished the deductible line of medical assistance, and was among the earliest in China to realize full coverage and urban-rural integration of medical assistance. Tibet also provides free physical examinations for urban and rural residents, and 99 percent of the Region's urban and rural residents have health records. In 2013, the childbirth mortality rate had fallen to 1.5451 per thousand and the infant mortality rate to 19.97 per thousand. Average life expectancy has risen from 35.5 years in the 1950s to the present 68.17 years. The Region has basically stamped out diseases caused by iodine deficiency.

——各項社會事業全面發展
-- Progress has been made in all social undertakings.

教育事業日新月異，實現學有所教。全區所有縣（區）全面完成普及九年義務教育，一個涵蓋學前教育、基礎教育、職業教育、高等教育、成人教育、特殊教育的比較完整的現代教育體系已經形成。實現了從學前到高中階段15年免費教育，農牧區義務教育學生營養改善計劃全面落實，政策和資金覆蓋率均達到100%。“三包”（包吃、包住、包學習費用）政策覆蓋學前教育到高中階段所有農牧民子女和城鎮困難家庭子女，且不斷提高標準，年生均標準已提高到3000元。全面啟動實施城鎮三年、農牧區兩年學前雙語教育工程。2014年底，幼兒園在園幼兒達8萬多人，學前教育毛入園率達60%。2014年底，全區擁有普通高等院校6所；中等職業學校9所，在校生1.7萬人；高級中學22所，完全中學4所，初級中學93所，十二年和九年一貫制學校各3所，小學829所。小學適齡兒童入學率達到99.64%，青壯年文盲率下降至0.57%以內，人均受教育年限達到8.6年，新增勞動力受教育年限達到12年以上。1984年，中央政府作出“在內地為西藏辦學培養人才”的重大戰略決策，現有21個省市辦有西藏班（校），已累計為西藏培養了大中專畢業生3.2萬余人。目前西藏不僅有了自己培養的碩士、博士，而且有了一批享譽全國的專家、學者，逐步建立了近30個科研院所，有各類專業技術人員69709人，學科領域涉及歷史、經濟、人口、語言、宗教和農業、畜牧、林業、生態、生物、藏醫藥、鹽湖、地熱、太陽能等數十個門類。其中，藏學、高原生態、藏醫藥等學科研究在全國處于領先水平，產生了一批有世界影響的學術成果。
Tibet's education has taken on a new look, and all children can now go to school. Nine-year compulsory education is practiced in all counties in the Region, and a complete modern education system is in place, covering preschool education, basic education, vocational education, higher education, adult education, and special education. Tibet has realized 15-year free education from the preschool stage to senior middle school, fully implemented the nutrition improvement plan for students under compulsory education in agricultural and pastoral areas, and realized 100 percent coverage in terms of both policies and funds. Tibet has covered all tuition, food, and boarding expenses for students from farmers' and herdsmen's families and those from families in urban areas with financial difficulties from preschool education to senior middle school education, and raised the subsidy standard many times to today's 3,000 yuan per student every year. Tibet has launched the campaign to provide three-year bilingual education for preschool children in urban areas, and two years for those in agricultural and pastoral areas. At the end of 2014, there were more than 80,000 children in kindergartens, and the gross enrollment rate for preschool education had reached 60 percent; there were six higher education institutions, nine secondary vocational schools with 17,000 students, 22 senior middle schools, four six-year middle schools, 93 junior middle schools, three nine-year education schools, three 12-year education schools, and 829 primary schools. The primary school enrollment rate reached 99.64 percent among school-age children, the illiteracy rate among young and middle-aged people fell to less than 0.57 percent, and the average length of education reached 8.6 years for the Region's general population and above 12 years for the newly-increased working population. Since the central government adopted the strategy in 1984 of "cultivating talent for Tibet in other parts of China," Tibetan schools and classes in 21 provinces and municipalities directly under the central government have cultivated more than 32,000 graduates from junior colleges and secondary technical schools for Tibet. Tibet has now cultivated its own postgraduate and Ph.D. students, built almost 30 scientific research institutions, compiled a group of renowned experts and scholars, and an army of 69,709 professionals in such areas as history, economics, demographics, languages, religion, agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, ecology, biology, Tibetan medicine, salt lakes, and geothermal and solar energy. Tibet tops China in areas such as Tibetan studies, plateau ecology, and Tibetan medicine, and boasts academic achievements of world influence.

公共文化服務覆蓋城鄉，人們精神生活不斷豐富。全區已建成群眾藝術館8座、公共圖書館5座、博物館3座，建成縣綜合文化活動中心74座，鄉鎮綜合文化站692座，建成文化信息資源共享工程自治區分中心、7個地市支中心、74個縣支中心、692個鄉鎮基層點、5389個村基層點，區、地、縣、鄉四級公共文化設施網絡初步形成。投資近13億元的“十二五”文化設施建設項目全面推進，到2015年底，西藏將基本實現“地市有公共圖書館和文化館，館藏文物豐富地區有博物館，縣縣有圖書館、文化館或綜合性文化活動中心，鄉鄉有綜合文化站，53%的縣國有藝術團有排練場”目標，公共文化設施總量將達到790個。建成1600余個文化廣場，形成拉薩雪頓節等群眾性、常態化品牌文化活動90個。全面啟動了公共設施的免費開放工作，近5年來，全區公共文化設施共開展免費群眾文化活動4萬余場，受益群眾達到800余萬人次。全區專業文藝團體和縣民間藝術團年均下鄉演出近1萬場次，送書下鄉10萬余冊。
Public cultural services now cover both urban and rural areas in Tibet, and have enriched people's cultural life. The Region has built eight public art centers, five public libraries, three museums, 74 county-level cultural activity centers, and 692 township-level cultural stations. In addition, it has built one regional center, seven prefecture-level sub-centers, 74 county-level sub-centers, 692 township-level stations, and 5,389 village-level stations as part of the project to share cultural information and resources. A cultural facility network covering the four levels of autonomous region, prefecture, county, and township is also taking shape. The cultural facility construction project as an important part of the 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015) with a total input of nearly 1.3 billion yuan is making full progress. By the end of 2015, all prefectures and cities in Tibet will have public libraries and cultural centers, areas rich in cultural relics will have museums, all counties will have libraries, cultural centers or comprehensive cultural activity centers, all townships will have cultural stations, and 53 percent of the county-level state-owned art troupes will have rehearsal spaces. The total number of public cultural venues will reach 790. Tibet has built more than 1,600 cultural squares, and launched 90 regularly-staged popular cultural activities, including the Lhasa Shoton Festival celebrations. Tibet also initiated the campaign to provide free access to public facilities. In the recent five years, the Region's public cultural venues have launched more than 40,000 free mass cultural events, benefiting more than eight million people. The Region's professional art groups and folk art groups at the county level staged more than 10,000 shows, and sent more than 100,000 books to the countryside.

新聞出版事業迅速發展，文化產品日益豐富。西藏人民出版社、西藏藏文古籍出版社累計出版各類圖書（教材）19052種、2.8263億冊。西藏音像出版社、雪域音像電子出版社2014年出版音像電子產品115種37.96萬盤。報紙、期刊分別發展到25種、35種。全區出版發行單位發展到576家，其中區、地、縣新華書店89家，邊境口岸新華書店5家，民營發行網點482家。2014年全區共發行圖書約3395萬冊，圖書銷售碼洋3.23億元。全區印刷企業38家，其中規模以上重點印刷企業1家。2014年全區印刷業總產值3.6億元。目前，全面建成5609個農家書屋、1700多個寺廟書屋，實現所有行政村有農家書屋、寺寺有寺廟書屋，有效解決了農牧民群眾和寺廟僧尼讀書難、用書難問題。
Tibet's press and publishing are growing fast, and more and more cultural products are appearing. Tibet People's Publishing House and Tibetan Ancient Books Publishing House published 19,052 book and textbook titles, totaling 282.63 million printed copies. In 2014, the Tibet Audio-Visual Publishing House and the Snowfield Electronic Audio-Visual Publishing House published 115 audio-visual and electronic book titles, totaling 379,600 copies. Tibet has 25 newspapers, 35 periodicals, and 576 publishing and distribution entities, among which 89 are Xinhua Bookstores at regional, prefectural and county levels, five are Xinhua Bookstores at frontier ports, and 482 are private distribution networks. In 2014, the autonomous region distributed 33.95 million copies of books, with a total value of 323 million yuan. The Region has 38 printing enterprises, one of which is a key enterprise with its turnover over 20 million yuan per annum. In 2014, the total output of the Region's printing industry reached 360 million yuan. The Region has built 5,609 rural libraries and 1,700 monastery libraries, bringing libraries to all administrative villages and monasteries, and providing all farmers, herdsmen, monks and nuns with access to books.

廣播影視事業得到長足發展。已累計新建、改擴建100瓦以上調頻轉播臺78座，50瓦以上電視轉播發射臺78座，中波廣播發射臺27座，衛星地球站1座，村村通廣播電視站9371座，全區所有的1787座寺廟實現了廣播影視全覆蓋。目前，有省級廣播電臺1座5個頻率，聽眾遍及世界50個國家和地區；有省級電視臺1座4個頻道，其中，藏語衛視已在尼泊爾、印度、不丹等周邊國家部分落地，全臺節目實現數字化，覆蓋全國人口7億多人；有地市級廣播電臺6座，電視臺1座。目前，全區廣播、電視綜合覆蓋率由1965年的12%和0%提高到現在的94.78%和95.91%，90%以上農牧戶實現了“戶戶通”。通過直播衛星接收設備，農牧民每家每戶能夠收聽收看到40至70多套數字廣播電視節目。目前，全區共有566個電影機構，其中478個農村電影放映隊全部實現數字化放映。
Tibet's radio, film and television undertakings have also made significant headway. The Region has built, rebuilt or expanded 78 FM stations above 100 w, 78 television transmitters above 50 w, 27 medium wave broadcast transmitters, one satellite earth station, and 9,371 radio and television stations for all villages. All 1,787 monasteries in the Region now have radio, film and television coverage. At present, Tibet has one provincial broadcast station with five frequencies, and its audiences are found in 50 countries and regions. It has one provincial TV station with four channels. Its programs, all digitized, cover more than 700 million people in China, and its satellite TV programs in Tibetan language can be viewed in neighboring Nepal, India, and Bhutan. Tibet has six prefectural-level radio stations, and one TV station. The coverage of radio in Tibet has increased from 12 percent in 1965 to today's 94.78 percent and that of television from zero in 1965 to today's 95.91 percent. More than 90 percent of farmer and herdsman families have access to radio and television. Through direct broadcast satellite receivers, each rural family can receive 40 to 70 digital radio and TV program channels. At present, Tibet has 566 film agencies, including 478 digitized film projection teams in the countryside.