New houses for Tibetan Kashin Beck Disease sufferers in Carang Village, Quxu County in Lhasa.

Table recording family condition like what photo shows is hung in front of every house.

Head of Carang Village, Garma Droje on an interview.

"The new houses lie beside the road, with good communication," said Garma Droje, a head of Carang Village in Quxu County of Lhasa, "Villagers with ability to work run business at other places. They can earn 30 yuan per day (about 3.75 dollars)." About 20 new houses are built up in Carang Village beside highway. It's one of move place for the Kashin Beck Disease sufferers from Nyemo County.

Prevalence rate of Kashin Beck Disease in Tibet is 8.77%, with 2/3 child and youth sufferers. About 1/3 sufferers will be bankrupt in ability to work. Kashin Beck Disease has been a main cause for the poverty in Tibet.

Chinese government has launched a large scale investigation of Kashin Beck Disease in 1999. According to the investigation, the most efficient way for this disease prevention is to move to other areas far away from the headstream of Kashin Beck Disease.

A total amount of 7 million yuan (about 875,000 dollars) was allocated to the series of actions including disease prevention, house-building and move by state government after the investigation.

According to the investigation, 2,454 households need to be moved into safe area in Tibet. Now 1,061 Tibetan households have moved into new houses, told by Bai Jianbin, chief of Disease Prevention and Control Section of Tibet Sanitation Office.