'Pairing-up' aiding Tibetan development

Assistance program tasks wealthy areas to tackle problems faced by ethnic group

A senior official urged greater efforts to boost pairing-up assistance for the Tibet autonomous region on Thursday to further benefit its people in a move to achieve common prosperity.

Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Tibet Work Coordination Group of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting on pairing-up with Tibet in Beijing.

Since its launch in 1994, pairing-up support from the central government and related provinces to Tibet has greatly boosted the region's socioeconomic development. A lot of roads in Tibet are even named after other municipalities and provinces such as Lhasa's Beijing Road and Shigatse's Shandong Road.