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Raidi

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Raidi
རག་སྡི་
热地
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
15 March 2003 – 15 March 2008
ChairmanWu Bangguo
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
In office
January 1993 – May 2003
Preceded byNgapoi Ngawang Jigme
Succeeded byLegqog
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
May 1985 – January 1993
Preceded byYangling Dorje
Succeeded byPagbalha Geleg Namgyai
Personal details
BornAugust 1938
Biru, Tibet
Died6 June 2025(2025-06-06) (aged 86)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materCentral Party School
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese热地
Traditional Chinese熱地
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRèdì
Tibetan name
Tibetanརག་སྡི་
Transcriptions
Wylierag sdi
Tibetan PinyinRaidi

Raidi (Chinese: 热地; Tibetan: རག་སྡི་; also written Ragdi; August 1938 – 6 June 2025) was 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[1] from 2003 to 2008, and was the highest-ranking Tibetan in the People's Republic of China.

Life and career

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Raidi was a native of Biru County, Tibet Autonomous Region. Born in August 1938, he was a graduate of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 1961.[2][3] He was formerly a Buddhist monk.[4]

Between 1966 and 1968, Raidi was employed by the Public Prosecution and Law Enforcement Commission of the Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region.[5] From 1968 to 1972, he held the position of officer and deputy chairman of the People's Security Group under the Nagqu Regional Revolutionary Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region. He held the position of Secretary of the Nagqu Prefecture CCP Committee from 1972 until 1975.[6]

He occupied numerous roles, including Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Disciplinary Commissioner of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Deputy Director of the Tibet Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress, Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and President of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party School.[7]

From 1993 to 1994, he held the positions of Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, Director of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress, and Party Secretary. From 1994 until 2003, he held the position of Standing Deputy Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and served as the Director of the Standing Committee of the Party Group Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. He held the position of Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from March 2003 until March 2008.[8]

On 16 September 2019, he received the national honorary designation of "Outstanding Contributor to Ethnic Unity".[9][10]

Raidi interacted with foreign journalists multiple times during his political career, discussing issues such as tourism in Tibet,[11] the status of the Dalai Lama,[4][12][13] the Karmapa Lama,[14] and the disappearance of the Panchen Lama.[15] He was a fierce critic of "splitism", or Tibetan nationalism,[16] and often criticized claims that Tibetans were oppressed by the Chinese government.[17]

Raidi died in Beijing on 6 June 2025, at the age of 86.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Former senior Chinese legislator Ragdi dies at 87". english.news.cn. Xinhua. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  2. ^ 中国人权研究会 (2007). 中国人权年鉴: 2000–2005 (in Chinese). 团结出版社. p. 1170. ISBN 978-7-80214-279-4. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Tibetan collaborator among top Chinese national honor recipients". Tibetan Review. 5 September 2019. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020. 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 spoke 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 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.
  4. ^ a b "Dalai Lama hindered Tibet, ethnic leaders say". The Deseret News. Associated Press. 9 March 1999.
  5. ^ 中共第十四届中央委员名录 (in Chinese). Chinese Communist Party History Press. 1993. p. 121. ISBN 978-7-80023-615-0. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  6. ^ 中国共产党西藏自治区组织史资料, 1950–1987 (in Chinese). 西藏人民出版社出版. 1993. p. 181. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  7. ^ 迈向新征程: 十屆全国人大一次会议, 全国政协十届一次会议纪实 (in Chinese). 新华出版社. 2003. p. 97. ISBN 978-7-5011-6178-2. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  8. ^ 中国民族年鉴 (in Chinese). 民族出版社. 2009. p. 14. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  9. ^ "国家勋章和国家荣誉称号获得者名单_滚动新闻_中国政府网". State Council of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese). 26 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  10. ^ 编辑： alan (17 September 2019). "国家主席习近平签署主席令 在庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年之际授予42人国家勋章和国家荣誉称号". 羊城晚报报业集团官方网站. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  11. ^ Butterfield, Fox (23 July 1979). "Tibet Opens Up to Tourists, But Only a Few at a Time". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  12. ^ Butterfield, Fox (19 July 1979). "But Chinese Have Put End to the Lamaist Theocracy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Handover embroiled in Tibet row". The Nation. Reuters. 6 July 1997. pp. A7.
  14. ^ Page, Jeremy (9 March 2000). "China says Dalai Lama manipulating escaped lama". Daily News. Reuters. p. 10.
  15. ^ "China says vanished Panchen Lama 'happy'". BBC News. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  16. ^ Smith, Warren (31 July 2019). Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-tibetan Relations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-61228-8.
  17. ^ Faison, Seth (25 August 1997). "China Faults U.S. Official Over Tibet Trip". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  18. ^ "热地同志逝世-新华网". Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). 6 June 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
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Preceded by Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1985–1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress Standing Committee
1993–2003 		Succeeded by
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