Senior advisor Ngapoi is no more

Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, a senior Chinese legislator and political advisor, passed away in Beijing yesterday. He was 99.

Ngapoi, of Tibetan ethnicity, died at 4:50 pm, according to a statement issued by the General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

In the statement, he was described as "a great patriot, renowned social activist, good son of Tibetan people, outstanding leader of China's ethnic work and close friend of the CPC."