Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.9, 2013

Removing the Barriers to the Development of Farmers and Herdsmen: A Survey of the Implementation Effects of Development Policies in the Kham Tibetan Region

(Abstract)

Zhu Ling

Our sampling survey and case study of the farming-pastoral villages and households in the Kham Tibetan region reveals that the farming-pastoral population here saw remarkable improvement in their existence and development conditions during the 2006-2010 period. Moreover, low-income groups and poor families also benefited from the sharedbenefit agricultural policies, projects related to people’s well-being and social security system building. Nevertheless, problems such as extensive management, low quality and insufficient public services still exist in the process of project construction and new system application. Countermeasures of these problems include: reestablishing the ties between the government and the basic-level society by mobilizing the masses to participate in public policy designing, implementation and supervision; strengthening the capacity building of the government and public organizations; and setting the meeting of the basic requirements of disadvantaged groups as top priority of aid-Tibet projects, and setting the satisfaction of the basic requirements of aided groups as a major indicator of measuring the implementation effects of local development policies.