The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, a CPPCC member, attends the Fifth Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, that opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Saturday. As an open forum where the ruling CPC, non-Communist parties and people without party affiliation discuss state affairs freely and on an equal footing, the CPPCC is the manifestation of China's socialist democracy. [Photo: Xinhua]