Government and Policy
New governor elected in Tibetan reshuffle
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-15 13:33
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 File photo of Padma Choling, newly elected governor of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [news.qq.com] |
LHASA: Padma Choling, a native Tibetan and former armyman, was elected governor of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region Friday at the regional parliamentary session.
Padma Choling, born in 1951, is a native of Dengqen in Qamdo Prefecture. He served 17 years in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) between 1969 and 1986, before he became an official in Tibet's regional government. He was elected vice-chairman of the regional government in 2003.
Padma Choling will meet the press later Friday morning.
Resigned former governor Qiangba Puncog was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Regional People's Congress, shortly after the annual parliamentary session endorsed his resignation as regional government chairman, a job he held for nearly seven years.
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 In this January 10, 2009 file photo, Qiangba Puncog, then chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, speaks at regional congress in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [Xinhua] |
Qiangba Puncog, a native of Qamdo Prefecture, was born in 1947. He was elected chairman of Tibet's regional government in May 2003.
A mechanics major from Chongqing University in the southwestern Chongqing Municipality, Qiangba Puncog is among the first Tibetans to receive college education. The slender, bespectacled and soft-spoken official is widely respected by the Tibetans as a man of wisdom.
