In September 2006, he became party chief of the regional capital Lhasa, and in 2008 joined the provincial CCP Standing Committee.
On September 20, 2017, Qin was appointed as deputy director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (minister-level).
The move was seen as a demotion, taking place only days after it was revealed that Qin did not even get elected as an ordinary delegate to the 19th Party Congress.
It also decisively broke with the mold of a long line of Communist Youth League chiefs who soared to higher office later on in their careers.
[4] On June 28, 2023, Qin was appointed as a full-time member of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission.