In the past 70 years, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has witnessed historic progress in terms of socioeconomic development and provision of human rights under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said Lobsang Samdan, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, from Tibet's Ali Prefecture.

Samdan, who is also the vice chairman of Ali's CPPCC regional committee, was speaking during an event known as the Members' Corridor ahead of the closing meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.