A Tibetan villager toasts during a ceremony for moving into her new house in Kunggar Town of Maizhokunggar County in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Feb. 11, 2009. (XinhuaPurbu Zhaxi)  

90 Tibetan farmers and herdsmen from 24 needy families in Kunggar Town of Maizhokunggar County in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, moved into their new houses ahead of the Tibetan Losar (Tibetan New Year).

Up to now, around 310,000 Tibetan rural people will be able to celebrate the Tibetan Losar in the government-subsidized solid brick houses under the housing project aiming to improve the living condition of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen.

The Kunggar Town also invested 220,000 yuan to buy furniture valued at around 8,000 yuan for every needy Tibetan family.

The 36-year-old Dekyi Drolkar hung an auspicious hada scarf on the door of her new house and presented the photo of Chinese President in the most attractive position. She said:"We used to squeeze in a wet and dark shanty of 40 square meters before, and it never occurred to me that I could live in bright and comfortable house."

It only cost Dekyi Drolkar 6,000 yuan in building the houses since the rest was invested by the government.

The government of Tibet has been allocating huge investment to the housing project to improve the living condition and modernize the life of rural Tibetans.

Some 312,000 farmers and herders from 57,800 families had moved from shanty homes into new solid brick houses in Tibet in 2008 with the help of housing project.

It is expected that all Tibetan farmers and herdsmen are able to live in decent houses in the next two years.

The second agricultural census of Tibet indicates 98.7% per cent of Tibetan people have their own houses with a per capita floorage of 30.7 square meters.