Chinese politician
Sanggyai Gya (Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་རྒྱ་, Wylie: sangs rgyas rgya, ZYPY: Sanggyai Gya; Chinese: 桑结加; born November 1942) is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who served as chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2001 to 2007.[1][2]
He was an alternate member of the 14th and 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2] He was a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1][2]
Biography
Sanggyai Gya was born in Ping'an County, Qinghai, in November 1942.[1][2] In 1959, he was admitted to Qinghai University for Nationalities, majoring in Chinese language and literature.[1][2] In September 1963, he joined the Qinghai People's Publishing House as an editor and party secretary.[1][2]
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in February 1972, and got involved in politics in May 1975, when he was assigned to the Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Culture.[1][2] He was elevated to deputy head of Qinghai Provincial Publishing Bureau and Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture.[1][2] In December 1983, he was recalled to the original Qinghai People's Publishing House and appointed president and party branch secretary.[1][2] He concurrently served as deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the CCP Qinghai Provincial Committee from October 1987 to May 1988.[1][2] He was deputy party secretary of Qinghai in May 1988, and held that office until January 2001.[1][2] In January 2001, he was proposed as chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the province's top political advisory body.[1][2] In February 2007, he was made vice chairperson of the Culture, History and Study Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [zh].[3]
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