Wu Yingjie

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Wu Yingjie (Chinese: 吴英杰; born December 1956) is a Chinese politician based in Tibet. Since 2016, he has served as the Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Wu was born in Changyi County, Shandong province. He arrived in Nyingchi, Tibet, in October 1974 as a rusticated youth during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977 he began working for a power generation station in the western suburbs of Lhasa. In August 1983 he joined the Tibet Autonomous Region's department of education. He would work in education for the next two decades. In 1987 he began overseeing elementary and secondary education as a regional bureaucrat. In 1990, he was put in charge of accepting donations of educational resources from other parts of the country. In 1994 he joined the Autonomous Region Education Commission, rising to deputy secretary in May 1998. In March 2000 he was named deputy head of the education department, then promoted to head in 2000.

In January 2003, Wu was named Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; in June 2005 he took on the regional propaganda portfolio, and joined the regional party standing committee next month. In November 2006 he became Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In November 2011 he was named deputy regional party chief. In April 2013 he was named executive deputy party chief. In August 2016, he became the Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region.[1]

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Party political offices
Preceded by
Chen Quanguo
Communist Party Secretary of the
Tibet Autonomous Region

2016 – present
Incumbent