page_title: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
section_title: Administrative, military and legislative responsibilities
hierarchical_section_title: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme / Career / Administrative, military and legislative responsibilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme at the first session of the PRC's First National People's Congress in 1954. Picture is in the public domain, the copyright has expired.
context_page_description: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme was a Tibetan senior official who assumed various military and political responsibilities both before and after 1951 in Tibet. He is often known simply as Ngapo in English sources.
context_section_description: After 1951, Ngapoi's career continued within the ranks of Chinese Communist administration of Tibet. He served as the leader of the Liberation Committee of Chamdo Prefecture until 1959. He was also a member of the Central People's Government's State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the CPPCC National Committee between 1951 and 1954.
  He was Deputy Commander of the Tibet Military District between 1952 and 1977, and a member of the National Defence Council from 1954 through the Cultural Revolution. He was appointed as lieutenant general and awarded the "Order of Liberation" first class in 1955.
caption: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme at the First Session of the PRC's 1st National People's Congress
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