The secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the

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of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the

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(CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the

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(PRC), the secretary is the highest ranking post in the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China. It was established in 1965 to replace the ...

. The secretary is officially appointed by the

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based on the recommendation of the CCP Organization Department, which is then approved by the

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and its

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. The secretary can be also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Tibet Regional Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Tibet Regional Committee, and is usually a member of the CCP Central Committee. The secretary leads the work of the Regional Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary is outranks the

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, who is generally the

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of the committee and is customarily an ethnic Tibetan. The secretary is always an ethnic Han. The current secretary is

Wang Junzheng Wang Junzheng (; born 17 May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving Party Secretary of Tibet since 18 October 2021. He was head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Xinjiang. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the Chinese Communist Party C ...

, who took office on 18 October 2021.

List of party secretaries

References

{{Committee secretaries of the Chinese Communist Party Politics of Tibet Autonomous Region Provincial and ministerial-level official Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party