In recent years, the municipal government of Lhasa has been continuously taking steps to develop compulsory education in townships in order to protect children's rights of receiving compulsory education on an equal footing and promote balanced education.

An editorial with Tibet Daily, the biggest local newspaper of southwest China's Tibet, advises that education policy should be adjusted with more resources shifted to its farming and pastoral areas in order to enhance education equality as well as social harmony.

First, overall planning for compulsory education should be stressed to achieve sustainable development in education. Tibet still lags behind in terms of school conditions, teachers' quality and student enrollments. In this case, it would be better to integrate and reallocate the education recourses such as merging or removing schools in rural and pastoral areas and setting up boarding schools in townships for children of farmers and herders.

Secondly, it is urgent to improve teachers' quality and nurture more backbones. More in-service training should be given to teachers by encouraging them to get continuing  education. The local education authorities should allocate more funding to rural and pastoral schools, especially those in the very remote areas.  

Last but not least, local education authorities need to balance education resources so as to ease the congestion in urban schools. It is imperative to improve conditions so as to attract students to go to schools near their homes instead of going far away.