Chairman of Xinjiang

Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government
新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府主席
National Emblem of China
Flag of China
Incumbent Erkin Tuniyaz since 30 September 2021
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

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		Burhan Shahidi (1894–1989)	October 1949	January 1955	Chinese Communist Party
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Committee
2		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		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		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		Nur Bekri (born 1961)	22 January 2008	31 December 2014		[6]
11		Shohrat Zakir (born 1953)	24 January 2015	30 September 2021		[7]
12		Erkin Tuniyaz (born 1961)	27 January 2022 (acting from 30 September 2021)	Incumbent		[8]

References

1. "Decoding Chinese Politics". Asia Society . Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
2. "Biography of Ismail Amat". China Vitae. Archived from the original on 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
3. "历任政府领导" . Retrieved 22 December 2023.
4. "Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit -- china.org.cn". China.org.cn. 2009-09-17. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
5. "司马义·铁力瓦尔地简历". Xinhua. Archived from the original on 2015-10-20.
6. "Chairman Seen as Lame Duck". Radio Free Asia. 19 October 2012.
7. "Brief introduction of vice chairpersons, secretary-general of 14th NPC Standing Committee". State Council of China. 11 March 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
8. "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.