This article lists themodern political leaders of Tibet within thePeople's Republic of China. The transition fromLamaist rule inTibet started in 1951 with theSeventeen Point Agreement between theCentral People's Government and the14th Dalai Lama. A "Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of Tibet" (PCART) was established in 1956 in the formerTibet Area to create a parallel system of administration along Communist lines. Transition to secular government completed whenTibet Autonomous Region was officially founded in 1965 according to thenational autonomy law.[1]
The politics in Tibet are structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the People's Republic of China. Both the Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Chairman of the regional People's Congress, are by lawethnic Tibetans. There is also abranch secretary of theChinese Communist Party (CCP), who is the top executive official.
The Chairman is the nominal leader of theTibet Autonomous Region (TAR), a province-level administrative division of thePeople's Republic of China. The Chairmen, and their times in office, are listed below. In practice, the Chairman is subordinate to the branch secretary of theChinese Communist Party.
| No. | Image | Name | Term start | Term end | Ref. |
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| 1 |  | Zhang Guohua (张国华) (1914–1972) | 24 January 1950 | June 1951 | [2][3] |
| 2 |  | Fan Ming (范明) (1914–2010) | June 1951 | December 1951 | [2][3] |
| 3 |  | Zhang Jingwu (张经武) (1906–1971) | March 1952 | September 1965 | [2][3] |
| 4 | | Zhang Guohua (张国华) (1914–1972) | September 1965 | February 1967 | [2][3] |
| 5 | Ren Rong (任荣) (1917–2017) | August 1971 | March 1980 | [2][3] | |
| 6 | Yin Fatang (阴法唐) (1922–2025) | March 1980 | June 1985 | [4][3] | |
| 7 | Wu Jinghua (伍精华) (1931–2007) | June 1985 | 1 December 1988 | [4][3] | |
| 8 |  | Hu Jintao (胡锦涛) (born 1942) | 1 December 1988 | 1 December 1992 | [4][3] |
| 9 |  | Chen Kuiyuan (陈奎元) (born 1941) | 1 December 1992 | 16 October 2000 | [4] |
| 10 |  | Guo Jinlong (郭金龙) (born 1947) | 16 October 2000 | 16 December 2004 | [4] |
| 11 |  | Yang Chuantang (杨传堂) (born 1954) | 16 December 2004 | 29 May 2006 | [5][4] |
| 12 |  | Zhang Qingli (张庆黎) (born 1951) | 29 May 2006 | 25 August 2011 | [4] |
| 13 |  | Chen Quanguo (陈全国) (born 1955) | 25 August 2011 | 28 August 2016 | [6] |
| 14 |  | Wu Yingjie (吴英杰) (born 1956) | 28 August 2016 | 18 October 2021 | [4] |
| 15 |  | Wang Junzheng (王君正) (born 1963) | 18 October 2021 | Incumbent | [7] |
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