In 2008, Tibet Autonomous Region of China (TAR) will build new houses for 52,000 rural people with 676 million yuan grants from local government, sources from the 1st Session of the 9th TAR People's Congress on January 16. 
Since 2006, TAR has implemented the Comfortable Housing Project in rural areas aiming to reconstruct 220,000 houses and make 80 percent of rural locals live comfortably. Nowadays the project have benefited rural people a lot and it will contribute more in the new year.