Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

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Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

西藏自治区人民代表大会
བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་།
12th Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Established1 September 1965
Leadership
Chairman
Losang Jamcan, CCP
January 15, 2017
Structure
CommitteesStanding Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region
Website
www.xizangrd.gov.cn
Constitution
Constitution 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
Tibetan name
Tibetanབོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་།

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

See also

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ ""Democratic rights" in Tibet". Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. 15 March 1998. Retrieved 2021-06-08.

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