New Tibet chairman is elected

Qi Zhala, former Party chief of Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, has been appointed the region's chairman, it was announced on Sunday.

Losang Gyaltsan, the former chairman, was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tibet People's Congress. Qi, 59, was appointed to the post at the fifth session of the 10th Tibet People's Congress on Sunday.

A member of the Tibetan ethnic group, Qi was born in Shangri-La, Yunnan province.