Losang Jamcan, also spelled Losang Gyaltsen (; ; born July 1957), is a Chinese politician of

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ethnicity. He is the President of

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People's Congress Standing Committee, and former

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(governor) of

and Mayor of Tibetan capital

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhasa ...

Career

Losang Jamcan was born in Zhag'yab County, Chamdo Prefecture in eastern

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. From December 1971 to February 1976 he attended Tibet University for Nationalities in

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province, studying Literature. After graduating he worked at the university for 10 years as an instructor and an official of the school

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. In December 1986 Losang Jamcan returned to his native Tibet, where he was the Secretary of the Communist Youth League of the autonomous region. From 1992 to 1995 he served as the Deputy

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and Commissioner of

Nagqu Prefecture Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; ; ) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, ...

in northern Tibet. In June 1995 he was transferred to the Tibetan capital

to be its Deputy Party Chief. He was appointed acting mayor in September 1995, and became Mayor of Lhasa in May 1996. From 2001 to 2004 he was enrolled in the part-time postgraduate program of the

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, studying

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. In January 2003 Losang Jamcan was promoted to Vice Chairman of

, and Executive Vice Chairman in May 2010. On 29 January 2013 he was elected Chairman of Tibet by the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, succeeding Padma Choling, who became chairman of the standing committee of the congress. As the regional chairman he is subordinate to Chen Quanguo, the

and top official of Tibet. On 15 January 2017, he was elected as the President of Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress Standing Committee. Losang Jamcan has been a member of the

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and 19th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

References

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