Panchen Rinpoche concludes visit to Xizang's Nyingchi city

LHASA -- Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po concluded his tour of Nyingchi city in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, and returned to the regional capital Lhasa on Wednesday.

Panchen Rinpoche arrived in Nyingchi on Aug 22. During his stay there, he inspected rural vitalization work in a village of the Deng minority in Zayul county, visited a local family, and toured a kiwi fruit plantation base.

On Aug 26, he delivered a lecture and performed head-touching rituals for monks and believers in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Zayul. He visited a tea planting base and a tea processing plant in Bomi county the next day.

On June 25, Panchen Rinpoche traveled from the Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Northwest China's Qinghai province to Lhasa. During his time in Lhasa, he performed his regular duties at the Xizang Branch of the Buddhist Association of China, and carried out a series of social research and religious activities.

Panchen Rinpoche is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body. He is also vice-president of the Buddhist Association of China and president of the association's Xizang branch.