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����������Ŀ�Խ�����������ĸ�60�꣨Ӣ��16�_����������Now enjoying the broadest possible democratic rights endowed bythe Constitution and other laws that they had never had in the pre-liberationsociety�� former serfs engaged in elections with great enthusiasm�� andelected organs and governments at various levels. For the first time inthe history of Tibet�� local governments at various levels were elected ina democratic way through people's exercise of their right to vote and tostand for election. By July 1965�� general elections had been basicallycompleted. Among the 2��600-plus deputies elected to the people's con-gresses�� 2��200 were former impoverished serfs. In Gyantse County�� voterscalled their electoral certificates ��masters' certificates��. They saw elec-tions as joyous events and actively participated in the elections of depu-ties to the people's congresses.����On August 25�� 1965�� the bill to establish the Tibet Autonomous Re-gion�� tabled by the State Council�� was approved at the 15th Session ofthe Standing Committee of the Third National People's Congress. FromSeptember 1 to 9�� 1965�� the First Session of the First People's Congressof Tibet was held. At this session�� the Tibet Autonomous Region was es-tablished�� and the People's Committee of the autonomous region cameinto being by election. Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme was elected chairman of the Committee. A large number ofliberated serfs held leading posts in or-gans of political power at various levels of the Region. The establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the organs of self-government of the Region realized the historic leap from theocratic feudal serfdom to peo-ple's democratic socialism�� and signified that Tibet had set up a people's democratic government and begun to exercise thorough-going regional ethnic autonomy. In 1979�� the Standing Committee of the People's Con-gress of the Tibet Autonomous Region was elected at the Second Session of the Third People's Congress of the Region.����According to the Constitution and the Law on Regional Ethnic Au-tonomy of the People's Republic of China�� people of all ethnic groups in Tibet fully enjoy the right to vote and to stand for election. Since 1978��Tibet has held 11 elections of deputies to the people's congresses at town-ship level�� 10 at county level�� and eight at the level of municipalities having subordinate districts. The people in Tibet can directly elect�� in accordance with the law�� deputies to the people's congresses at county ��district�� and township ��town�� levels�� and these elected deputies will then elect deputies to the people's congresses at the autonomous regional and national lev-els. Through the people's congresses at various levels�� the people of Tibet exercise their right to participation in the administration of state and local affairs.����Currently�� there are 35��963 deputies to the people's congresses at all levels in Tibet. Among them�� deputies from the Tibetan and other minor-ity ethnic groups account for 92.18 percent. Upholding the organic unity of Party leadership�� the running of the country by the people�� and law-based governance�� the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Re-gion and its Standing Committee guarantee and develop the rights of the people of all ethnic groups to be their own masters through legislative and institutional channels�� ensure that the people of all ethnic groups enjoy broad rights and freedom�� and expand citizens' orderly political participa-tion. They provide support for the deputies to the people's congresses to perform their duties in accordance with the law. Maintaining close ties with the deputies and the people�� they take responsibility for the people and accept their oversight. They work to safeguard the fundamental inter-ests of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet and promote well-rounded human development.��������