Tibet will allot 260 million yuan (38 million U.S. dollars) later this year to improve the appearance of 500 villages, according to the Regional Government.

This is another move to promote construction of a new countryside following the undertaking of the comfortable housing projects for Tibetan farmers and herders.

A newly-built Tibetan-style house stands in Gongzong Village, southeastern Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture. (Photo Source: tibet.cn)

The housing projects have supplied the rural Tibetans with safe and comfortable houses, but infrastructure in many villages is still backward, said Meng Deli, a leading official of the Regional Government.

Therefore, the government plans to spend more building a clean, sanitary and civilized rural environment.

To date, 226,302 households of 1.2 million rural Tibetans have moved into new houses since the housing project was launched in 2006.