Learning in harmony

"People's happiness is the ultimate human right, while development holds the key to delivering better lives to the people," Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said in the letter to the opening of the 2023 Forum on the Development of Xizang, China.

The forum, the seventh since the first was held in Vienna, Austria, in 2007, was jointly hosted by the State Council Information Office and the regional government.

Tibet should continue its people-centered development philosophy and improve people's livelihoods as the goal of its economic and social development, said Li Shulei, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.

"More fruits of modernization should be shared with the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet in a more equitable way, bringing a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security," Li said at the forum.

Wang Junzheng, the autonomous region's Party secretary, said at the forum that Tibet's high-quality development will follow the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability and actively serving as well as integrating with the new development paradigm.

"We will attach great importance to cultivating and developing industries and the real economy, continuously optimize the business environment, vigorously promote the development of strategic emerging industries such as clean energy, the digital economy, general aviation, and cultural tourism, and actively develop industries closely related to the work and daily life of the people, striving to protect and improve people's livelihoods," he said.

To that end, the central government has invested more than 224 billion yuan ($30.9 billion) in regional education during the past seven decades, with at least 3,000 schools of different levels enrolling more than 790,000 students, who can enjoy 15 years of publicly funded compulsory education, according to a white paper on the sector.

At the Beijing Experimental High School, Lhasa, the government began investing 250 million yuan nine years ago, to build a new campus that has grown to cover 13.8 hectares, with 56 classes of lower and upper secondary education for more than 2,400 students, taught by 300 teachers.

Educational resources to aid the development of the school and meet the diverse needs of students include 167 teachers sent in four groups and management teams from Beijing, study tours, youth tutors, and more than 50 elective courses.

In 2016, the Education Ministry applied the school's model to other parts of the country.