in 1989 amounted to some 450 million yuan. 17. It is estimated that from the peaceful liberation of Tibet in the early 1950s until 1988, State support and aid to Tibet for its economic development and improvement of living standards, including subsidies and various kinds of targeted funds, altogether amounted to 15.97 billion yuan. 18. The State has also funded the development of basic education in minority areas. Since 1983, every year it has put up 100,000 yuan as a special effort to provide universal elementary education. Fifty-four per cent of this funding goes to the five autonomous areas - Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet and Guangxi - as well as the three provinces with the highest concentration of minority population - Yunnan, Guizhou and Qinghai. 19. The State also places great emphasis on health care in minority areas. In recent years, China's Ministry of Health has sponsored a series of special conferences on the prevention of epidemics and tuberculosis as well as on mother and child care in minority areas. It has adopted and implemented effective measures specifically designed for these areas for the prevention and treatment of diseases. 2 0. In terras of the economy, culture and health care, the results in minority areas have not been insignificant. In 1988, the total industrial and agricultural products of all the nationality autonomous regions, after adjusting for geographical changes, increased by 19.5 times over the initial value of 3,660 million yuan in 1949. In 1988, minority students enrolled in higher educational institutes accounted for 6 .1 per cent of the total, whereas in 1950 it was merely 0.93 per cent. The total number of minority students is 97.6 times that of 1950. In 1988, there were a total of 338,892 hospital beds in all the autonomous areas, an increase of 102-fold over the total of
**Analysis**
The text primarily discusses the economic development and improvement of living standards in minority areas of China, with a focus on the support and aid provided by the State. It also touches on education, health care, and culture, but these topics are secondary to the overall theme of economic development. Therefore, I hypothesize that the most fitting category would be a combination of Economic development, Education, and Health.

**Category**
Economic development, Education, Health