Qiangba Puncog

Qiangba Puncog
བྱམས་པ་ཕུན་ཚོགས 向巴平措
Qiangba Puncog at the 2010 National People's Congress
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 14 March 2013 – 17 March 2018
Chairman	Zhang Dejiang
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
In office 15 January 2010 – 29 January 2013
Preceded by	Legqog
Succeeded by	Padma Choling
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region
In office 16 March 2003 – 15 January 2010
Party Secretary	Guo Jinlong Yang Chuantang Zhang Qingli
Preceded by	Legqog
Succeeded by	Padma Choling
Personal details
Born	May 1947 (1947-05) (age 77) Chamdo, Tibet
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Chongqing University

Qiangba Puncog, also spelled Champa Phuntsok (Tibetan: བྱམས་པ་ཕུན་ཚོགས་, Wylie: byams pa phun tshogs; Chinese: 向巴平措; pinyin: Xiàngbā Píngcuò; born in May 1947) was the chairman of the government of Tibet Autonomous Region of China from 2003 until January 2010. He is of Tibetan ethnicity.^[1][2] He was most visible in public during the 2008 Tibetan unrest, receiving diplomats and journalists.^[1] Qiangba Puncog resigned as chairman on January 12, 2010,^[3] and subsequently began serving as chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.^{[citation needed]}

Qiangba Puncog was born in Chamdo, Tibet in May 1947. He graduated from Chongqing University, and he joined in the Chinese Communist Party in 1974.^[1]