April 3

On April 3, 1990, Hu Jintao, secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, received interviews from HongKong and Taiwan media at the Tibetan hall of the Great Hall of the People. Hu Jintao stressed that the door of dialogue remained open to the Dalai Lama, so long as he gave up "Tibet Independence". Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme pointed out that after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, China’s central government introduced a series of preferential policies to safeguard social stability and promote economic development, which remarkably improved people’s well-being and received their warm welcome.