Aid measures lift nearly 500,000 out of poverty

From 2016 to the end of last year, 478,000 people in the Tibet autonomous region saw great improvements in their living standards, according to the regional poverty relief and development office.

Tibet, in the southwest of the country, has long been regarded as a major battlefield in the central government's fight to eradicate poverty nationwide by 2020, and this year has been key to winning that battle.

The regional poverty alleviation and development office said authorities have made poverty relief a priority, and, with central government support, a range of measures have proved successful.