Qiangba Puncog | |
Native Name: | |
Office: | Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
Term Start: | 14 March 2013 |
Term End: | 17 March 2018 |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Zhang Dejiang |
Office1: | Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress |
Term Start1: | 15 January 2010 |
Term End1: | 29 January 2013 |
Predecessor1: | Legqog |
Successor1: | Padma Choling |
Office2: | Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region |
Term Start2: | 16 March 2003 |
Term End2: | 15 January 2010 |
Predecessor2: | Legqog |
Successor2: | Padma Choling |
1Blankname2: | Party Secretary |
1Namedata2: | Guo Jinlong Yang Chuantang Zhang Qingli |
Birth Place: | Chamdo, Tibet |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | Chongqing University |
Qiangba Puncog, also spelled Champa Phuntsok (; ; born in May 1947) was the chairman of the government of Tibet Autonomous Region of China from 2003 until January 2010. He is of Tibetan ethnicity.[1] [2] He was most visible in public during the 2008 Tibetan unrest, receiving diplomats and journalists.[1] Qiangba Puncog resigned as chairman on January 12, 2010,[3] and subsequently began serving as chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Qiangba Puncog was born in Chamdo, Tibet in May 1947. He graduated from Chongqing University, and he joined in the Chinese Communist Party in 1974.