According to the White Paper "Human Rights in Xizang in the New Era", which is released by Chinese government today: Since 2012, two elections at the county and township levels have been held in Xizang to elect people’s congresses, in which more than 90 percent of eligible voters – 100 percent in some places – in the region participated in these direct elections. At present, a total of 42,153 deputies to people's congresses at four levels in the autonomous region have been elected, 89.2 percent of whom are from the Tibetan or other ethnic minority groups. There are 428 deputies to the 12th People's Congress of the Xizang Autonomous Region, 280 of whom are of Tibetan or other minority ethnicity, accounting for 65.42 percent of the total. (White Paper: Human Rights in Xizang in the New Era)