Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་།

12th Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

TypeType

Established1 September 1965Leadership

Chairman

Losang Jamcan, CCP
January 15, 2017

StructureCommitteesStanding Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous RegionWebsitewww.xizangrd.gov.cnConstitutionConstitution of the People's Republic of China

Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

Chinese name

Simplified Chinese

西藏自治区人民代表大会

Traditional Chinese

西藏自治區人民代表大會

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xīzàng Zìzhìqū Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì

Tibetan name

Tibetan

བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་།

Transcriptions
Wylie	bod rang skyong ljongs mi dmangs 'thus mi tshogs chen

The People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region is the local people's congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Following decisions taken by the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the regional government was officially announced during the first session of the Tibetan People's Congress in September 1965 in Lhasa.^[1]^[2] In theory, all adult Tibetans have the right to elect their leaders who administer the province.^[3]

Organization

Chairpersons of the Standing Committee


Name	Took office	Left office
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme	August 1979	April 1981
Yang Dongsheng	April 1981	February 1983
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme	February 1983	January 1993
Raidi	January 1993	May 2003
Legqog	May 2003	15 January 2010
Qiangba Puncog	15 January 2010	29 January 2013
Padma Choling	29 January 2013	15 January 2017
Losang Jamcan	15 January 2017	Incumbent

References

^ "New Progress in Human Rights in the Tibet Autonomous Region". Permanent Mission of the People's Republic Of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations In Switzerland. February 1998. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
^ Jiawei, Wang; Gyaincain, Nyima. "View of The Historical Status of China's Tibet (part 7). Chapter X: Tibet Institutes Regional National Autonomy and Needs No "Self-Determination"". www.bpastudies.org. Business and Public Administration Studies Journal. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
^ ""Democratic rights" in Tibet". Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. 15 March 1998. Retrieved 2021-06-08.

v t e Province-level people's congresses of China
National level: National People's Congress
Provinces	Anhui Fujian Gansu Guangdong Guizhou Hainan Hebei Heilongjiang Henan Hubei Hunan Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin Liaoning Qinghai Shaanxi Shandong Shanxi Sichuan Yunnan Zhejiang
Autonomous regions	Guangxi Inner Mongolia Ningxia Tibet Xinjiang
Municipalities	Beijing Chongqing Shanghai Tianjin
Special Administrative Regions	Hong Kong Macau

v t e Political leaders of the Tibet Autonomous Region
Party Committee Secretaries	Zhang Guohua Fan Ming Zhang Jingwu Zhang Guohua Ren Rong Yin Fatang Wu Jinghua Hu Jintao Chen Kuiyuan Guo Jinlong Yang Chuantang Zhang Qingli Chen Quanguo Wu Yingjie Wang Junzheng
Congress Chairpersons	Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme Yang Dongsheng Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme Raidi Legqog Qiangba Puncog Padma Choling Losang Jamcan
Government Chairpersons	Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (Preparatory Committee) Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (Preparatory Committee, acting) Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (People's Committee) Zeng Yongya (Revolutionary Committee) Ren Rong (Revolutionary Committee) Sanggyai Yexe Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme Dorje Tseten Doje Cering Gyaincain Norbu Legqog Qiangba Puncog Padma Choling Losang Jamcan Che Dalha Yan Jinhai
Conference Chairpersons	Tan Guansan Zhang Guohua Ren Rong Yin Fatang Yangling Dorje Raidi Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai

Tibet articles

History

Overviews	Timeline List of rulers European exploration Historical money
Chronology	Prehistory (Neolithic) Zhangzhung Yarlung dynasty Empire (7th–9th century) Timeline List of emperors Lönchen Relations with Tang (618–907) Era of Fragmentation (9th–13th century) Guge kingdom Tsongkha Relations with Song (960–1279) Yuan dynasty rule (1270–1350) Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs Phagmodrupa dynasty Relations with Ming (1368–1644) Rinpungpa dynasty Tsangpa dynasty Ganden Phodrang Kashag Khoshut Khanate Qing dynasty rule (1720–1912) Lifan Yuan List of Qing ambans Post-Qing to 1950 Tibetan Army People's Republic of China (PRC) rule PRC annexation political leaders
Wars and conflicts	Tibetan attack on Songzhou Battle of Dafei River Mongol invasions of Tibet Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war Battle of Dartsedo Battle of the Salween River Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720) Jinchuan campaigns Lhasa riot of 1750 Sino-Nepalese War Dogra–Tibetan War Nepal-Tibet War (1855–1856) Sikkim expedition British expedition to Tibet Batang uprising Chinese expedition to Tibet (1910) Xinhai Lhasa turmoil Sino-Tibetan War Qinghai–Tibet War 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet 1939 Japanese expedition to Tibet Battle of Chamdo Protests and uprisings since 1950 1959 Tibetan uprising 1987–1989 Tibetan unrest 2008 Tibetan unrest Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China Special Frontier Force
Documents	Treaty of Tingmosgang (1684) 13-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet (1751) 29-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet (1793) Treaty of Chushul (1842) Treaty of Thapathali (1856) Convention of Calcutta (1890) Treaty of Lhasa (1904) Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet (1906) Anglo-Russian Convention (1907) Treaty of friendship and alliance with Mongolia (1913) Simla Accord (1914) Seventeen Point Agreement (1951) Sino-Indian Trade Agreement over Tibetan Border (1954) 70,000 Character Petition (1962) Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy (2008)

Geography

Flora Fauna Environment Mountains Kailash Lhotse / Changtse Namcha Barwa Tanggula Rivers Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon Rongbuk Glacier Tibetan Plateau Changtang Nature Reserve Valleys
Traditional regions	Amdo Kham Ü-Tsang Ngari

Politics

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Government	Regional Government TAR People's Government TAR People's Congress

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