Yan Jinhai

Yan Jinhai
ཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ 严金海
Yan in 2023
Chairman of Xizang Autonomous Region
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 October 2021
Party Secretary	Wang Junzheng
Preceded by	Che Dalha
Communist Party Secretary of Lhasa
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 January 2021
Preceded by	Padma Wangdu [zh]
Personal details
Born	March 1962 (age 62) Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Qinghai University for Nationalities
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	严金海
Traditional Chinese	嚴金海
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yán Jīnhǎi
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ
Transcriptions Wylie yan cin ha'e Tibetan Pinyin Yänjinhae

Yan Jinhai (Chinese: 严金海; Tibetan: ཡན་ཅིན་ཧའེ; born March 1962) is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who is the current deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Tibet Committee and chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, in office since 8 October 2021.^[1] Previously he served as party secretary of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

He was a delegate to the 11th National People's Congress. He is a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[2]