In December 1951, Zhaxi Wangqug took the leaders of Golog to Beijing and was received by Mao Zedong.

On 1 January 1954, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was established, with Zhaxi Wangqug as the founding governor.

In 1964, he was appointed head of Political and Legal Department of the Central People's Commission, but having held the position for only two years.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, Zhaxi Wangqug was denounced as a "capitalist roader" and "local nationalism", and was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Jilin and Hubei provinces.

After the Cultural Revolution in 1979, he was appointed vice governor and deputy party secretary of Qinghai.