Zhang Qingli elected Tibet Party chief
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-23 21:30
Zhang Qingli was elected secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday.
Zhang Qingli [file photo] | Zhang,
55, was elected to the post at the first plenary session of the 7th CPC Tibet
Regional Committee.
He was appointed secretary of the CPC Committee of the Tibet Autonomous
Region in May this year, replacing 52-year-old Yang Chuantang, who was appointed
vice-minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (at ministerial level) in
June.
According to official records, Zhang, a native of Dongping, East China's
Shandong Province, was born in January 1951. He was admitted into the CPC in
February 1973.
Zhang worked in Dongping until January 1979 where he rose to be deputy chief
of Dongping's CPC county committee. He then moved to Beijing to take up the
position of department vice head of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Youth League (CCYL).
In 1986, he left the CCYL Central Committee and returned to Shandong to
become vice mayor of Dongying City and deputy secretary of the city's CPC
committee.
Zhang was promoted several times in Shandong until August 1998. He then moved
to Gansu Province, where he held a number of important posts including head of
the publicity department of the provincial CPC committee and Party chief of
Lanzhou, the provincial capital.
Between October 1999-March 2005, Zhang held a series of key positions in the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, such as commander of the paramilitary Xinjiang
Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), deputy secretary of the CPC committee
of the XPCC, deputy secretary of the CPC committee of the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region, and vice-chairman of the People's Government of Xinjiang.
He is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and a deputy of the 10th
National People's Congress.
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