Yan Jinhai

Yan Jinhai
ཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ
严金海
Yan in 2023
Chairman of Xizang Autonomous Region
Assumed office
8 October 2021
Party SecretaryWang Junzheng
Preceded byChe Dalha
Communist Party Secretary of Lhasa
Assumed office
18 January 2021
Preceded byPadma Wangdu [zh]
Personal details
BornMarch 1962 (age 62)
Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materQinghai University for Nationalities
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYán Jīnhǎi
Tibetan name
Tibetanཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ
Transcriptions
Wylieyan cin ha'e
Tibetan PinyinYänjinhae

Yan Jinhai (Chinese: 严金海; Tibetan: ཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ; born March 1962) is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who is the current deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Tibet Committee and chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, in office since 8 October 2021.[1] Previously he served as party secretary of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

He was a delegate to the 11th National People's Congress. He is a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]

  1. ^ Jun, Mai (6 October 2021). "New role for Tibet's chairman in countdown to China's Communist Party congress". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  2. ^ Nie Chenjing (聂晨静) (24 October 2017). 十九大受权发布:中国共产党第十九届中央委员会候补委员名单. Xinhua (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 October 2021.