Rinchen Gya was a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who served as chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference between 2012 and 2018.
10 Facts About Rinchen Gya
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Rinchen Gya was an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 17th CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
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Rinchen Gya was a member of the 10th, 12th, 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Rinchen Gya was born into a herdsman family in Gonghe County, Qinghai, in July 1954.
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Rinchen Gya entered the workforce in October 1972, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1975.
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Rinchen Gya rose to become secretary of Gonghe County Party Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in November 1978 and party secretary of Xinghai County in April 1988.
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Rinchen Gya was deputy party secretary of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in December 1990 and then deputy governor in April 1996.
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Rinchen Gya served as governor of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture from April 1996 to December 1998, and party secretary, the top political position in the prefecture, from December 1998 to November 2002.
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Rinchen Gya served as chairman of the People's Congress of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture between March 1999 and May 2002.
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Rinchen Gya was appointed head of the United Front Work Department of CCP Qinghai Provincial Committee in November 2002, concurrently serving as secretary of Qinghai Commission for Discipline Inspection since March 2007.