Chairman of Xinjiang
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government | |
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| 新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府主席 | |
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| People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region | |
| Type | Head of government |
| Status | Provincial level official |
| Reports to | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Congress and its Standing Committee |
| Nominator | Presidium of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Congress |
| Appointer | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Congress |
| Term length | Five years, renewable |
| Inaugural holder | Burhan Shahidi |
| Formation | October 1949 |
| Deputy | Deputy Chairperson Secretary-General |
The Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government is the head of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The chairman generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and is the second-highest ranking official in the autonomous region after the secretary of the CCP Xinjiang Committee. The government chairman is always an Uyghur.[1]
List
Republic of China
Non-partisan/ unknown Warlords People's Anti-Imperialist Association Kuomintang (Nationalist)
Chairperson of the Provincial Government (Mainland era)
| No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–death) |
Term of office | Political Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Yang Zengxin
楊增新 Yáng Zēngxīn (1864–1928) |
1912 | July 7, 1928 | Xinjiang clique |
| Assassinated. | |||||
| 2 | 
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Jin Shuren
金樹仁 Jīn Shùrén (1879–1941) |
July 7, 1928 | April 12, 1933 | Xinjiang clique |
| Deposed in a coup. | |||||
| 3 | Liu Wenlong
劉文龍 Liú Wénlóng (1870–1950) |
April 14, 1933 | September 1933 | ||
| Removed from office and placed under house arrest by Sheng Shicai. | |||||
| – | Zhu Ruichi
朱瑞墀 Zhū Ruìchí (1862–1934) |
September 1933 | March 5, 1934 | ||
| Figurehead chairman appointed by Sheng Shicai and not recognized by the Central government. Died in office. | |||||
| 4 | 
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Li Rong
李溶 Lǐ Róng (1870–1940) |
October 1934 | March 21, 1940 | |
| Figurehead chairman. Died in office. | |||||
| 5 | 
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Sheng Shicai
盛世才 Shèng Shìcái (1895–1970) |
April 4, 1940 | August 29, 1944 | People's Anti-Imperialist Association |
| Kuomintang | |||||
| Recognized by the Central government only as a duban (military governor), Sheng was de facto ruler of Sinkiang from 1933. In 1940, the Central government recognized him as Provincial chairman. Removed from office. | |||||
| 6 | 
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Wu Zhongxin
吳忠信 Wú Zhōngxìn (1884–1959) |
August 29, 1944 | March 29, 1946 | Kuomintang |
| Resigned. | |||||
| 7 | 
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Zhang Zhizhong
張治中 Zhāng Zhìzhōng (1895–1969) |
March 1946 | June 1947 | Kuomintang |
| Removed from office. | |||||
| 8 | 
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Masud Sabri
麥斯武德 مەسئۇت سابرى (1887–1952) |
June 1947 | January 1949 | Kuomintang |
| First Uighur governor and first non-Han Governor in China during the twentieth century. Appointed during the Ili Rebellion. | |||||
| 9 | 
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Burhan Shahidi
包爾漢 بۇرھان شەھىدى (1894–1989) |
January 1949 | September 26, 1949 | Kuomintang |
| Surrendered to the People's Liberation Army. | |||||
Xinjiang Provincial Government Office era
Chairperson of the Provincial Government
| No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–death) |
Term of office | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Yulbars Khan
堯樂博士 يۇلبارس خان (1888–1971) |
April 11, 1950 | July 27, 1971 | Kuomintang |
| Died in office. | |||||
Director, Xinjiang Provincial Government Office
| No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–death) |
Term of office | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yao Tao-hung
堯道宏 Yáo Dàohóng (1913–1991) |
July 27, 1971 | ? | Kuomintang | |
| Son of Yulbars Khan. | |||||
| 2 | Hou Chi-yu
侯紀峪 Hóu Jìyù |
? | January 16, 1992 | Kuomintang | |
| Post abolished. | |||||
People's Republic of China
| No. | Officeholder | Term of office | Party | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | |||||
| Governor of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government | ||||||
| 1 |
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Burhan Shahidi
(1894–1989) |
October 1949 | January 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Committee | ||||||
| 2 | 
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Saifuddin Azizi
(1915–2003) |
October 1955 | January 1967 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee | ||||||
| 3 | Long Shujin
(1910–2003) |
1968 | July 1972 | Chinese Communist Party | ||
| 4 |
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Saifuddin Azizi
(1915–2003) |
1972 | 1978 | ||
| 5 | Wang Feng
(1910–1998) |
1978 | 1979 | |||
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government | ||||||
| 6 | Ismail Amat
(1935–2018) |
1979 | 1985 | Chinese Communist Party | [2] | |
| 7 | 
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Tömür Dawamat
(born 1930) |
1985 | 1993 | [3] | |
| 8 | Ablet Abdureshit
(born 1938) |
January 1993 | January 2003 | [4] | ||
| 9 | Ismail Tiliwaldi
(born 1944) |
January 2003 | December 2007 | [5] | ||
| 10 | 
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Nur Bekri
(born 1961) |
22 January 2008 | 31 December 2014 | [6] | |
| 11 | 
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Shohrat Zakir
(born 1953) |
24 January 2015 | 30 September 2021 | [7] | |
| 12 |
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Erkin Tuniyaz
(born 1961) |
27 January 2022
(acting from 30 September 2021) |
Incumbent | [8] | |
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- ^ "Biography of Ismail Amat". China Vitae. Archived from the original on 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
- ^ "历任政府领导". Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit -- china.org.cn". China.org.cn. 2009-09-17. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "司马义·铁力瓦尔地简历". Xinhua. Archived from the original on 2015-10-20.
- ^ "Chairman Seen as Lame Duck". Radio Free Asia. 19 October 2012.
- ^ "Brief introduction of vice chairpersons, secretary-general of 14th NPC Standing Committee". State Council of China. 11 March 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ "Erkin Tuniyaz elected chairman of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region-Xinhua". english.news.cn. Xinhua News Agency. 27 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2023.