Guest Speaker: Dr. Tsewang Dorjee, TPI,CTA. Date: 22nd July 2022. Event: The Tibet Museum's Bimonthly Talk series

1. BORDER VILLAGES IN
TIBET: EYES AND EARS OF
THE PRC
TSEWANG DORJI
RESEARCH FELLOW
TIBET POLICY INSTITUTE

2. SIAOKANG: WELL-OFF VILLAGES
• The Siaokang is the Chinese way of well-off
village, which means middle Class Income. This
Chinese way of social-economic developmental
society is introduced by Deng Xiaoping.
• The term xiaokang, literally mean “small
comfort,” it is first emerged around 2,000 years
ago in the Book of Songs and Book of Rites, both
are ancient Chinese classics. According to these
ancient Chinese classic sources - Siaokang refers
to“a social state in which people led a fairly
comfortable life”.

3. SIAOKANG IN TIBET
• Since the 19th Party Congress in October 2017, Chinese
President Xi Jinping has been directed China's Tibet Policy
and focused on the stability of Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) leadership for building the comprehensive security
structure in the so called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
• The new architecture strengthens the present security
apparatus already in place and combines it with Chinese
President Xi Jinping’s new initiative of model ‘xiaokang’
(well-off ) border defence villages. It is part of president Xi
Jinping's nationwide push for poverty alleviation spelt out
at the 19th Party Congress. The xiaokang border defence
villages’ are also intended to create a strategic buffer
inhabited by people loyal to the CCP and the nation.

4. TAR’s PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
SIAOKANG IN TIBET’S BORDERS
In 2017, the Tibet Autonomous Region issued the
"Plan for the Construction of Well-off Villages in
the Border Areas of the Tibet Autonomous
Region (2017-2020)", and decided to review the
628 first- and second-line administrative villages
in the region. The implementation of the
construction of a well-off village mainly focuses
on improving the production and living conditions
of border residents in ten aspects, including
water, electricity, roads, education, science,
culture, and sanitation.

5. BORDER VILLAGES

6. BORDER WATCHPOST: EYES AND EARS

7. ANY QUESTIONS ?