17. Nov 2009
16,000 nomadic households in Qinghai 'settled'
(Xinhua) Xinhua reports that there are still 134,000 households of Tibetan nomads in 33 counties of Qinghai province remaining to be settled in permanent homes. So far, 16,000 Tibetan households have been moved into permanent settlements under a compulsory five-year scheme that involves a total of 560,000 nomads. The report cited Vice Governor Deng Bentai as saying the province would spare no efforts to move the remaining herders into permanent homes.