Raidi

Tibetan politician
རག་སྡི་
热地Vice Chairman of the National People's CongressIn office
March 2003 – March 2008ChairmanWu BangguoChairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's CongressIn office
January 1993 – May 2003Preceded byNgapoi Ngawang JigmeSucceeded byLegqogChairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ConferenceIn office
May 1985 – January 1993Preceded byYangling DorjeSucceeded byPagbalha Geleg Namgyai Personal detailsBornAugust 1938 (age 85)
Biru, TibetPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materCentral Party SchoolChinese nameSimplified Chinese热地Traditional Chinese熱地
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRèdì
Tibetan nameTibetanརག་སྡི་
Transcriptions
Wylierag sdi
Tibetan PinyinRaidi

Raidi (Chinese: 热地; Tibetan: རག་སྡི་; also written Ragdi; born August 1938) is a Tibetan politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008, and the highest ranking Tibetan in China.

Biography

He is a native of Biru County, Tibet Autonomous Region. He is a graduate of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1961.[1]

Tibetan Review wrote on September 3, 2019, that "China has included Re Di (also written as Raidi or Redi, but pronounced as Ragdi), one of top Tibetan collaborators with its occupation rule in Tibet, in a list of 36 nominees for its highest state honor which was announced on Aug 27."[2]

References

  1. ^ "Tibetan collaborator among top Chinese national honor recipients | Tibetan Review". www.tibetanreview.net. 2019-09-05. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2020-03-10. Re Di, a native of Driru (Chinese: Biru) County in Nagchu (Naqu) Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) where he was born in Aug 1938, is a graduate of the Central Party School, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1961.He has in the past spoken of having experienced suffering under the old Tibetan society and that the PLA taught him about revolution and led him towards the revolutionary path. Ragdi has worked in various top leadership positions in TAR during his 28 years of service there until his "election" as a Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress in Mar 2003.
  2. ^ "Tibetan collaborator among top Chinese national honor recipients | Tibetan Review". www.tibetanreview.net. 2019-09-05. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2020-03-10.

External links

  • Raidi biography @ China Vitae, the web's largest online database of China VIPs
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Preceded by Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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