Qiangba Puncog, also spelled Champa Phuntsok (; ; born in May 1947) was the

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of the government of

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from 2003 until January 2010. He is of Tibetan ethnicity. He was most visible in public during the

2008 Tibetan unrest The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of protests and demonstrations over the Government of China, Chinese government's treatment and persecution of Tibetan people, Tibetans. Protes ...

, receiving diplomats and journalists. Qiangba Puncog resigned as chairman on January 12, 2010,Canada Tibet Committee , Newsroom , WTN
/ref> and subsequently began serving as chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Biography

Qiangba Puncog was born in

Chamdo Chamdo, officially Qamdo () and also known in Chinese as Changdu (), is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan in Karuo District. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest c ...

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in May 1947. He graduated from

Chongqing University Chongqing University (CQU; ) is a public university in Chongqing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Chongqing University ...

, and he joined in the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

in 1974.

References

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