Doje Cering (; ; born November 1939) is a Chinese politician of

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...

ethnicity who served as chairperson of the

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from 2003 to 2008, minister of Civil Affairs from 1993 to 2003, and chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region from 1985 to 1990. He was a member of the 12th CCP

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. He was a member of the 13th, 14th, 15th and

16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 2002 to 2007. It held seven plenary sessions. It was set in motion by the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The 15th Central Committee preceded it. ...

. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 10th

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Biography

Doje Cering was born in

Xiahe County Xiahe (; ) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, the People's Republic of China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhis ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, in November 1939. He entered the workforce in August 1955, and joined the

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in October 1960. During the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

, he suffered

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. He was magistrate of

Gyaca County Gyaca County, (; ) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Gyatsa County is in the south of Tibet, stretching from the Podrang La pass along the southern side of the Brahmaputra River downstream t ...

, first party secretary of Shannan, and first party secretary of

Shigatse Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (; Nepali: ''सिगात्से''), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histor ...

. In 1983, he was promoted to become vice chairman of

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, rising to chairman in 1985. He served as deputy minister of Civil Affairs in May 1990, and was promoted to the minister position in March 1993. In March 2003, he was proposed as chairperson of the

References

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