China News Service, Lhasa, November 23 (Zhao Lang Gongga Laisong) The first meeting of the 12th People's Congress of Lhasa opened on the 22nd.

  Guoguo, deputy secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Party Committee and mayor, delivered a government work report at the meeting, summarizing the work of the 11th People's Congress of Lhasa in the past five years.

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  "Over the past five years, the overall economic strength has increased significantly." He said that the regional GDP has increased from 39.528 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2015 to 67.816 billion yuan in 2020, an average annual growth rate of 9%, and the growth rate remains at full rate. China's major cities are at the forefront.

The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents will exceed the national average.

The urbanization rate of the permanent population has reached 70%.

General public budget revenue increased from 6.242 billion yuan to 10.726 billion yuan, an average annual increase of 11.4%.

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  He introduced that in the past five years, Lhasa's infrastructure construction has accelerated in an all-round way.

The transportation network of adjacent cities has entered the high-speed era, and the "Fuxing" connects the central-south Tibet city circle.

The mileage of rural roads opened to traffic was 5,460 kilometers, an increase of 17% compared with 2015, and the smoothness rate of township administrative villages and the coverage rate of township buses reached 100%.

A nearly 100-kilometer circle around the city has been completed, the urban built-up area has been expanded from 71 square kilometers to 118 square kilometers, and infrastructure such as water, electricity, electricity, and gas, and the urban-rural circulation system have been comprehensively improved.

41 river control projects were implemented in depth, the construction of key farmland water conservancy projects in seven counties and districts was completed, and 277,000 mu of irrigated area was improved and added.

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  He also said that in the past five years, a total of 93.09 million tourists have been received and a total tourism income of 134.7 billion yuan has been achieved, which has doubled over the period of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan".

Ecological security barriers are becoming stronger and stronger. 26 nature reserves and ecological function zones have been established. The ecological red line area has reached 9761 square kilometers, and the grassland comprehensive vegetation coverage rate is 69.8%.

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