Thirty delegates from Tibet Autonomous Region attended the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing from October 16 to 22. They represented more than 400,000 Party members in the region.
“It’s my great honor to be elected as a delegate,” Sherlok Drolma, a former world champion wrestler from the Tibetan ethnic group, told Beijing Review on September 30. “I will fulfill my role to the best of my ability.”
The 20th CPC National Congress had 2,296 elected delegates representing more than 96 million CPC members and over 4.9 million primary-level Party organizations. Women accounted for 27 percent of the total, an
