50 YEARS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AID TO TIBET(Ⅱ)

From March 14-15. 1980.Hu Yaobang, then General Secre-tary of theCPC Central Committee, chaired the First National Work Conference on Tibet.It was decided that efforts be made to put right the wrongs suffered by some 1,000 religious figures, and to give them new jobs. Beginning in 1980, the gov-ernment would not issue a mandatory plan on produc-tion and cultivation: Tibetan farmers and herders would pay no agricultural or live-stock breeding tax, These new policies were made public by th…