29.85 million RMB will be used for building children's welfare center in TAR, to provide a better living environment for the orphans.

This newly built welfare center with the total area 11,950 square meters, providing 300 beds for orphans will be put in use in 2010. There are children's activity center, rehabilitation center, logistics center, as well as children living areas available in the welfare center.

During 1970s and 1980s, Tibetan orphans were living with the lonely elderly in social welfare homes. In 1997, five children's welfare centers sponsored by TAR Ministry of Civil Affairs were set up in TAR.

Currently, nearly 900 orphans are adopted by children welfare centers in TAR.