Many successes have been made in those regions thanks to the concern and steps taken by the party and state and creative labor drive of the people in the regions.

They have achieved political stability and unity and rapid progress in economy.

In the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan, their economic growth surpassed the nationwide average annual growth.

Total output value in the Tibet autonomous region grew 12.3 percent in 2010 as compared with that in the previous year and that in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region jumped 10.6 percent.

Infrastructural construction made brisk headway, significantly improving the transport conditions.

The total length of roads in the regions totaled 880 000 km as of the end of 2009 and motor roads have found their ways to 98 percent of the rural areas.

Great progress has been made in education, culture and public health.

70 457 schools at all levels are now operating in the above-said regions and nine-year compulsory education is enforced there in the main.

There appeared independent scientific institutions and scientific and technological dissemination centres to widely introduce advanced scientific and technological achievements into production.

The number of the units for preserving major cultural relics increased to 366 and inhabitants' radio audience rate to 85 percent and that of TV audience reached 90 percent by 2010.

The number of hospitals and their beds and medical workers has doubled since 1978.

The average life span of the inhabitants in the Tibet autonomous region rose to 67 years from 35.5 years in 1959.