He joined the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1983. He began his political career in November 1984, when he became an official in the Education Bureau of
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In February 1990, he became deputy director of the Office of the CCP Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee, rising to director the next year. He served as deputy secretary-general of the CCP Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee in July 1993, and three years later promoted to the secretary-general position. At the same time, he was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee, the prefecture's top authority. He became deputy party secretary of
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in June 1998 before being assigned to the similar position in
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in January 2005. In 2005, he was named acting governor of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and was installed in March 2005. In February 2008, he was promoted to party secretary, the top political position in the prefecture. It would be his first job as "first-in-charge" of a prefecture. He was appointed vice governor of Qinghai in January 2013 and in May 2017 was admitted to member of the
standing committee of the CCP Qinghai Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. ==Career in Tibet==