贫困人口大幅减少。2006-2014年实施贫困户、大骨节病搬迁和“兴边富民行动”，使11.63万户贫困群众人均住房面积增加了20%-30%。昔日许多低矮、阴暗、人畜混杂居住的土坯房变成了安全适用的住房。扶贫开发项目的实施，使57.8万户、260万人受益。新修和维修乡村道路3223公里，水渠3371.6公里、水塘347座232.94万立方米，新增和改善灌溉面积30万亩，新建农用桥883座、12834米，温室4583座，棚圈3.5万套。改良天然草场、草场围栏、人工种草28.78万亩，贫困地区生态环境进一步改善。农牧民收入明显增加，2003年以来连续12年保持了两位数增长。生活在每人每年2300元(2010年不变价)的国家农村扶贫标准下的全区农村贫困人口由2010年的117万人减少到2014年底的61万人，累计减少贫困人口56万人。贫困人口占全区农牧民人口比例，由2010年的49.2%下降至2014年的23.7%。2006年以来，直接、间接落实强农惠农补贴资金累计达到706.36亿元，落实粮食直补资金1.89亿元，落实农资综合补贴3.58亿元，落实家电、家具下乡补贴资金3.4亿元。这些补贴政策提高了农牧民群众收入，提高了农牧民的购买能力，提升了农牧民的生活品质。

　　社会保障事业不断迈上新台阶。实施积极的就业政策，就业率保持较高水平。2014年，西藏城镇登记失业率控制在2.5%以内，新增就业4.3万人，提供高校毕业生公职岗位1.1万个，各援藏省市和中央企业共提供就业岗位5335个，1500多名高校毕业生实现了区外就业，全区公益性岗位总量达3万个，通过公益性岗位安置就业26018人，2500多户零就业家庭实现了动态消零，就业形势稳定。近年来，覆盖城乡居民的社会保障体系全面建立。继续加强“五大险种”保障制度，完善城乡居民社会养老保险制度，扩大最低生活保障，实施免费意外保险，建立了寺庙僧尼基本养老和医疗保险制度，全区各项社会保险参保达260.6万人次。企业退休职工基本养老金月人均水平达3338元，居全国前列。城市居民最低生活保障标准提高至每月534元，农村低保标准提高至每年2231元，五保户供养标准提高至每年3873元，分散供养标准提高至每年3874元，集中收养孤儿基本生活保障标准达到月人均1200元。及时发放城乡困难群众慰问金。2013年底，全区各类社会福利机构共有263个，公办儿童福利院8所，民办儿童福利院2所。72%有意愿的五保对象实现集中供养，5900多名孤儿得到有效救助。

The poverty-stricken population has been substantially reduced. From 2006 to 2014, Tibet launched the "Campaign to Develop Border Areas and Improve the Lives of the People," relocated poverty-stricken families and people with Kashin-Beck disease, and increased by 20 to 30 percent the per capita living area of 116,300 poverty-stricken families. Many people have moved from small, dark, adobe houses, where they lived alongside livestock, to safe, more suitable homes. Poverty relief projects have benefited 2.6 million people in 578,000 households. Tibet has built and renovated a total of 3,223 km of country roads, 3,371.6 km of irrigation channels, 347 ponds covering a total 2.3294 million sq m; it has built 883 bridges for agricultural purposes of a total 12,834 m in length, 4,583 greenhouses, and 35,000 pens. It has also installed or improved irrigation systems for 300,000 mu (one mu = 1/15 hectare) of farmland. Tibet has moreover improved the ecological environment of poverty-stricken areas, and the total area of fenced grassland, improved grassland, and planted grassland has reached 287,800 mu. Since 2003, the income of farmers and herdsmen has recorded double-digit growth for 12 consecutive years. The poverty-stricken population - people with a per capita per annum income of less than 2,300 yuan (at constant price of 2010) - has fallen from 1.17 million in 2010 to 610,000 at the end of 2014. The proportion of poverty-stricken population in the Region's total population of farmers and herdsmen fell from 49.2 percent in 2010 to 23.7 percent in 2014. Since 2006, the Region has directly or indirectly allocated a total of 70.636 billion yuan in subsidies to strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, 189 million yuan in subsidies to grain production, 358 million yuan as general subsidies for purchasing agricultural supplies, and 340 million yuan as subsidies for purchasing home appliances and furniture. Those subsidies have increased the income and purchasing power of farmers and herdsmen and improved their living standards.

Tibet's social security has entered a new stage. Due to its proactive employment policy, Tibet has maintained a high employment rate. In 2014 the registered urban unemployment rate was maintained at below 2.5 percent, and newly increased urban employment totaled 43,000. Graduates from institutions of higher learning were provided with 11,000 jobs in the public sector, while provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and centrally managed state-owned enterprises offered 5,335 job vacancies. More than 1,500 graduates from Tibet found jobs in other parts of the country. The number of public welfare jobs in the Region totaled 30,000, and 26,018 people found jobs in public welfare sectors. More than 2,500 zero-employment households were provided with jobs in a timely manner, and the employment situation remained stable. In recent years, the social security system that covers both urban and rural residents has been established in an all-round way. Tibet strengthened the security system of "five major insurance types" (endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, medical insurance, and maternity insurance), improved the social endowment insurance system for urban and rural residents, expanded the basic living allowance, implemented free accident insurance, and established the basic endowment insurance and medical insurance systems for monks and nuns. These moves have benefited 2.606 million insurance participants. The basic old-age pension for enterprise retirees in Tibet reached 3,338 yuan per person per month, one of the highest in the country. The basic living allowance for urban residents was raised to 534 yuan per person per month and to 2,231 yuan for rural residents per person per year. The yearly payment to those who enjoy the "five guarantees" (for food, clothing, medical care, housing and funeral expenses) was significantly raised to 3,873 yuan per person per year, the standard of rural decentralized support rose to 3,874 yuan per person per year, and the minimum subsistence guarantees for children housed in orphanages was 1,200 yuan per person per month. Condolence money was also timely extended to impoverished urban and rural residents. By the end of 2013, there were 263 social welfare organizations, eight state-run children's welfare homes, and two private children's welfare homes in Tibet. Centralized support covered 72 percent of those who enjoy the "five guarantees," and more than 5,900 orphans were effectively supported.