A: Tibet will seize the opportunity offered by western development to make five changes to its policies concerning opening up to domestic and overseas markets. Its aim is to make full use of resources, market, and human resources to accelerate Tibet's social and economic development. The five changes are:
Changing the relationship between Tibet and the interior from one of merely receiving aid to that of reciprocal cooperation. Improving its investment environment with the help of the whole nation, and integrating Tibet's advantages in resources with the capital, talent, technology and information advantages of the interior, to establish a group of profit-making enterprises by cooperation and joint management.
Changing single-way opening to two-way opening. While expanding opening to the interior, Tibet should also make use of the extensive market in the interior and join the country's united market. By so doing, Tibet may constantly expand sales of its products and further develop its characteristic industries, and actively take part in investment activities in the interior.
Changing from unitary opening to overall opening. Instead of opening its commodity and labor markets only, Tibet will also open its capital and technological markets. Meanwhile, Tibet will open wider in the fields of science, technology, education and culture.
Besides offering favorable policies, Tibet will also pay great attention to optimizing its investment environment as a whole, and will continue to accelerate infrastructure construction in areas such as transportation, communications and energy.
While emphasizing its opening up to the domestic market, Tibet will also enhance its opening up to the international market. It will make full use of its geo-advantages and actively carry out trade with neighboring countries, giving full play to the utilization of foreign investment.