Zhaxi Wangqug (Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug, ZYPY: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག་; Chinese: 扎喜旺徐; 28 July 1913 – 16 October 2003) was a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who served as chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1979 to 1981 and chairman of Qinghai People's Congress from 1981 to 1983.[1]

Zhaxi Wangqug
བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག་
Chairman of Qinghai People's Congress
In office
November 1981 – April 1983
Preceded byJi Chunguang [zh]
Succeeded bySong Lin [zh]
Chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
September 1979 – November 1981
Preceded byTan Qilong
Succeeded byZhao Haifeng
Personal details
Born(1913-07-28)28 July 1913
Zhanhua County, Xikang, China
(now in Garzê, Sichuan, China)
Died16 October 2003(2003-10-16) (aged 90)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseZhou Shufan
Alma materMinzu University of China
Military service
Allegiance People's Republic of China
Branch/serviceRed Army
 People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service1935–1949
UnitFourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army [zh]
Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army [zh]
Chinese name
Chinese扎喜旺徐
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāxǐ Wàngxú

He was a representative of the 8th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He was delegates to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th National People's Congresses.[1] He was members of the 6th and 7th Standing Committees of the National People's Congress.[1] He was members of the 4th and 5th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]

Biography

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Zhaxi Wangqug was born into a herdsman family in Zhanhua County (now Xinlong County), Xikang, on 28 July 1913.[1][2]

In early 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army [zh] set up the Tibetan People's Republic in Garzê County.[2] Zhaxi Wangqug became company commander of a troop of cavalry.[2] On 2 July 1936, the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army [zh] arrived in Garzê County and successfully met with the Fourth Front Army.[2] Soon, the Fourth Front Army went north first, and Zhaxi Wangqug stayed to prepare food and other materials for the Second Front Army.[2] In August 1936, he took part in the Long March under He Long, becoming the only Tibetan soldier in the Second Front Army.[1][2] In 1938, he came to Yan'an, where he studied at Yan'an Institute for Nationalities (now Minzu University of China). He joined the Chinese Communist Party in that year.[1]

After the Second Sino-Japanese War, he worked in north China's Inner Mongolia.[1]

After the liberation of Xining in September 1949, Zhaxi Wangqug led a working group to Golog area, and Golog was peacefully liberated by the People's Liberation Army.

In December 1951, Zhaxi Wangqug took the leaders of Golog to Beijing and was received by Mao Zedong. On 1 January 1954, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was established, with Zhaxi Wangqug as the founding governor. In September 1954, he was unanimously chosen as a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress. In December of that same year, he rose to become vice governor of Qinghai.

In May 1958, he was labeled as one of the "Two Local Protectionist Figures" with Feng Baiju and brought to be persecuted. In 1964, he was appointed head of Political and Legal Department of the Central People's Commission, but having held the position for only two years. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, Zhaxi Wangqug was denounced as a "capitalist roader" and "local nationalism", and was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Jilin and Hubei provinces. In 1972, under the help of Premier Zhou Enlai, he returned to Beijing and was reinstated.

After the Cultural Revolution in 1979, he was appointed vice governor and deputy party secretary of Qinghai.[1] In September 1979, he was appointed chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he remained in that position until November 1981, when he took office as chairman of Qinghai People's Congress.[1]

On 16 October 2003, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 90.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 扎喜旺徐同志逝世(图). sina (in Chinese). 13 November 2003. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Li Hua (李华) (5 April 2020). “民族代表”扎喜旺徐从军记. mzb.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2022.
Assembly seats
Preceded by Chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1979–1981
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of Qinghai People's Congress
1981–1983
Succeeded by