Karu Township, Nimu County, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region

Karu Village

Nimu County governs the township. Located in the southwest of the county, there are 4772 318 national highways, with a population of 1371 (2017), which are connected to highways. It has jurisdiction over two village committees, karu and chilang. The magnificent landscape of Yarlung Zangbo River Gorge has attracted countless tourists' sighs and praise, but it also blocks the way for herdsmen in karu township of Nimu county to get rich. A few years ago, due to the inconvenient transportation, the harvested animal husbandry products could not be sold, and the advanced civilization information could not get in, so the farmers and herdsmen in the mountains could only live a self-sufficient life.

On October 8, 2018, after local recommendation and expert review, the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas plans to promote karu township as a beautiful leisure village in China in 2018.

Historical evolution

"Karu" is a Tibetan translation, meaning "Dou Xing Di". Karu township was established in 1960, changed to commune in 1970, restored to township in 1984, and merged karu and Zeming into karu Township in 1987.

economic development

Agricultural and livestock products

Mainly agriculture, supplemented by animal husbandry, planting highland barley, wheat, rape, Grazing Yak, sheep, goats.

the service sector; the tertiary industry

In recent years, in order to achieve the goal of "let the mind out of the mountains, let Nimu run to a well-off society", Nimu county has invested more than 42 million yuan to build five rural oil roads from the county seat to xumai, Nimu, Tarong, pagu and Pusong. Through these "roads to prosperity" built or under construction, local well-known special products such as Pusong carving, tunba Tibetan incense, Tarong Tibetan paper, etc. have entered the market outside the mountain; daily commodities, fertilizer, agricultural machinery and other means of life and production outside the mountain have been continuously sent to the farmers and herdsmen in the mountain. The highway has brought visible and tangible economic benefits to local farmers and herdsmen. The GDP of the local tertiary industry was 43.8 million yuan, up 14.6% year on year.

Labor export

The road also brought new changes in the concept of local farmers and herdsmen. More and more farmers and herdsmen are willing to go out of the mountains, leave the land where they have lived for generations, and go out into the world. Karu Township, with a population of 1174, is a big labor export Township in Nimu county. The whole township has more than 450 people going out to work every year. Labor export alone has increased the per capita cash income of the township by 2000 yuan. At present, most of the farmers and herdsmen in the township have been basically out of poverty.

Quarrying industry

In addition to the export of labor services, the development of the quarrying industry also benefited from the highway. In the past, quarrymen in karu Township used the traditional manual method of quarrying, which was dangerous and inefficient. The quarrying stones were sold without processing, and they could not earn much money all year round. Now, the advanced air compressor has been transported into the mountain, greatly improving the economic benefits of the quarrying industry. Each person can earn an average of more than 80 yuan a day, and skilled quarryers can even reach more than 100 yuan. Now, a stone processing plant has been standing beside National Highway 318, which will witness the rapid development of local economy. "After the construction of the Lhasa - Japan Railway, our quarrying industry will certainly be even bigger," said miropando, head of karu township the family of Ziren Jianzong, who lives in zelang village, karu Township, Nimu County, felt the change of life. His family now has two people engaged in tourism services, others engaged in breeding and quarrying, the family's annual net income reached more than 20000 yuan. They also spent 200000 yuan to build a spacious and bright house with air conditioning, TV and motorcycles. They had a wonderful life.

Major schools

Primary school of karu Township, Nimu County

Characteristic products

Highland barley, wheat, rape, yak, sheep, goat