From Reuters, via Phayul.com:
China’s Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has appointed a political ally as acting party boss of Tibet, a move that further consolidates his power base.
The party’s elite Central Committee recently appointed Zhang Qingli, 54, vice governor of the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang in China’s northwest, as acting party boss of the Himalayan region, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. It gave no further details.