Dharamshala, 6th October: According to a SCMP, Qizhala, the chairman of the Tibet autonomous region has departed Lhasa to take up a new role in Beijing. In a reorganisation ahead of the five-yearly Communist Party meeting next autumn, Lhasa Communist Party president Yan Jinhai is anticipated to fill his vacancy. President Xi Jinping is likely to begin his third five-year term as party general secretary during the congress, making him the first Chinese leader to do so in decades.
Yan, 59, is an ethnic Tibetan official from Qinghai province in the northwest, while Qizhala is an ethnic Tibetan from the neighbouring southwestern province of Yunnan. Qizhala, 63, has led the regional administration since 2017 and is anticipated to take on a new job in the country’s main legislature, the National People Congress, which is an usual destination for regional heads in their later years.
In July of last year, Yan was named deputy party chairman of Tibet, and in January, he was named party secretary of Lhasa. His promotion path is extremely similar to that of Qizhala. The reorganisation, which has yet to be made public, comes at a time when the region’s strategic importance is growing.
The region overlooks China’s disputed Himalayan border with India, where Chinese and Indian troops fought in deadly confrontations in 2020. Tibet has been at the centre of a number of laws approved by the US Congress in the last two years. In July, Xi made his first visit to the region since 1990, emphasising the need of social stability as a policy priority for the region. He did, however, emphasise the necessity of border security in ways that previous administrations had rarely done.
Outside of China, Qizhala is most known for leading a delegation from Tibet to Washington in 2016, when they were welcomed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
This article based on the South China Morning Post’s post(www.scmp.com).
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