Govt vows to carry on work to help small ethnic groups in remote areas

China will continue to reinforce its efforts to improve living and working conditions for 28 ethnic groups that have populations of less than 300,000 each, the deputy director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission said on Thursday.

"Priorities were set to provide the villages inhabited by less-populous ethnic groups with access to five types of infrastructure services and 10 living and working facilities by 2015," Luo Liming said at a news conference of the State Council Information Office.

The benefits include asphalt roads; electricity; radio and television; telecommunications; biogas; safe drinking water; homes for settlement; clean toilet facilities; high and stable-yield basic farms to increase residents' income and basic education resources.