The secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the secretary is the highest ranking post in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The secretary is officially appointed by the CCP Central Committee based on the recommendation of the CCP Organization Department, which is then approved by the Politburo and its Standing Committee. The secretary can be also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Tibet Regional Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Tibet Regional Committee, and is usually a member of the CCP Central Committee. The secretary leads the work of the Regional Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary is outranks the chairman, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee and is customarily an ethnic Tibetan. The secretary is always an ethnic Han.
The current secretary is Hu Changsheng, who took office on 22 September 2026.
List of party secretaries ImageNameTerm startTerm end1Zhang Guohua (张国华)(1914–1972)24 January 1950June 19512Fan Ming (范明)(1914–2010)June 1951December 19513Zhang Jingwu (张经武)(1906–1971)March 1952September 19654Zhang Guohua (张国华)(1914–1972)September 1965February 19675Ren Rong (任荣)(1917–2017)August 1971March 19806Yin Fatang (阴法唐)(1922–2025)March 1980June 19857Wu Jinghua (伍精华)(1931–2007)June 19851 December 19888Hu Jintao (胡锦涛)(born 1942)1 December 19881 December 19929Chen Kuiyuan (陈奎元)(born 1941)1 December 199216 October 200010Guo Jinlong (郭金龙)(born 1947)16 October 200016 December 200411Yang Chuantang (杨传堂)(born 1954)16 December 200429 May 200612Zhang Qingli (张庆黎)(born 1951)29 May 200625 August 201113Chen Quanguo (陈全国)(born 1955)25 August 201128 August 201614Wu Yingjie (吴英杰)(born 1956)28 August 201618 October 202115Wang Junzheng (王君正)(born 1963)18 October 202122 September 202616Hu Changsheng (胡昌升)(born 1963)22 September 2026Incumbent
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