Qiangba Puncog

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Qiangba Puncog (also Jampa Phuntsok or Champa Phuntsok; Chinese: 向巴平措; Pinyin: Xiàngbā Píngcuò, born in 1947) is the current Chairman of the government of Tibet Autonomous Region of China. He is of the Tibetan ethnicity.

[edit] Biography

Qiangba Puncog was born in Qamdo, Tibet in 1947. He graduated from Chongqing University, and he joined in the Communist Party of China in 1974.

He has been the Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region since 2003. He was most visible in public during the 2008 Tibetan unrest, receiving diplomats and journalists.

Preceded by Legqog (列确)

Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region 2003 –

Succeeded by incumbent