Lhasa Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

The Lhasa Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the local branch of the Chinese Communist Party in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. It is elected by the Lhasa Congress of the CCP. The Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party stipulates that the Lhasa Municipal Committee executes the directives of the CCP Central Committee and the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the resolutions of the Municipal Party Congress during its recess, oversees the administration of Lhasa, and provides regular reports on its activities to the Central Committee and the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee.

History

In March 1951, the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee established the CCP Lhasa Municipal Committee in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province, and landed in Lhasa with the 18th Army in September 1951. The Lhasa Municipal Committee was dissolved in November 1953. In August 1956, the CCP Lhasa Branch Work Committee was founded; it was dissolved in October 1957. In January 1960, Lhasa City was established, and the CCP Lhasa Municipal Committee was officially constituted in the same year.