Zhang Yanqing (politician, born 1964)

Zhang became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in January 1990. He held the positions of deputy mayor of the Lhasa Municipal People's Government and director of the Lhasa Municipal Public Security Bureau. In January 2012, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Lhasa Municipal Committee, as well as the secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Committee of Political and Legal Affairs and the secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Public Security Bureau. In October 2012, he assumed the roles of executive deputy secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Committee, secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, and secretary of the Lhasa Municipal Public Security Bureau. In January 2013, he was appointed as the deputy secretary of the CCP Lhasa Municipal Committee, Deputy Chairman of Lhasa acting mayor. In March 2013, he was appointed Mayor of Lhasa.^[1]

In June 2016, he succeeded Tenzin Langjie as Secretary of the CCP Shigatse Municipal Committee.^[2] On January 30, 2018, he was elected vice chairman of the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In December 2022, he resigned from his position as Secretary of the CCP Shigatse Municipal Committee. ^[3]