Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 中国共产党新疆维吾尔自治区委员会 جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيەسى شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونلۇق كومىتېتى‎ ‎
Overview
Type	Highest decision-making organ when Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Congress is not in session.
Elected by	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Congress
Length of term	Five years
Term limits	None
First convocation	November 1949
Leadership
Secretary	Ma Xingrui
Deputy Secretary	Erkin Tuniyaz (Government Chairman) Li Yifei (XPCC Political Commissar) He Zhongyou (Party Secretary of Ürümqi) Zhang Zhu (Xinjiang Organization Department Director)
Secretary-General	Qadan Käbenuly
Executive organ	Standing Committee
Inspection organ	Commission for Discipline Inspection

• Organization Department
• Publicity Department
• United Front Work Department
• Political and Legal Affairs Commission

Offices

• Policy Research Office
• Office of the National Security Commission
• Office of the Cyberspace Affairs Commission
• Office of the Institutional Organization Commission
• Office of the Military-civilian Fusion Development Committee
• Taiwan Work Office
• Office of the Leading Group for Inspection Work
• Bureau of Veteran Cadres

Dispatched institutions

• Working Committee of the Organs Directly Affiliated to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee
• Ürümqi Municipality and Changji Prefecture Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Organizations directly under the Committee

• Xinjiang Party School
• Xinjiang Daily
• Xinjiang Institute of Socialism
• Party History Research Office
• Xinjiang Regional Archives

Leadership

The Regional Committee Secretary is the highest-ranking official in Xinjiang. The Regional Committee Secretary is ex officio the first-ranking political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The Chairman of the XUAR People's Government usually serves as the CCP Deputy Committee Secretary. ^[3] Since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. ^[4]

Party Committees

Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee

• Wang Zhen (1949–1950)

First Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee

• Wang Zhen (1950–1952)
• Wang Enmao (1952–1955)

Early Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee (September 1955 – 1956) ^[5]

• First Secretary: Wang Enmao
• Second Secretary: Xu Liqing
• Third Secretary: Saifuddin Azizi
• First Deputy Secretary: Gao Jinchun
• Second Deputy Secretary: Wu Kaizhang
• Members (22 in total): Wang Enmao, Xu Liqing, Saifuddin Azizi (Uyghur), Gao Jinchun, Wu Kaizhang, Burhan Shahidi (Uyghur), Zhao Shougong, Lü Jianren, Xin Lanting, Yang Heting

First Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee (1956) ^[5]

• First Secretary: Wang Enmao
• Secretaries: Saifuddin Azizi, Wu Kaizhang, Lü Jianren, Zeng Di, Saidulla Saifullayev
• Members (35 in total, including 12 ethnic minority members; 13 standing committee members)
• Standing Committee Members: Wang Enmao, Saifuddin Azizi (Uyghur), Wu Kaizhang, Lü Jianren, Zeng Di, Saidulla Saifullayev (Uyghur), Burhan Shahidi (Uyghur), Xin Lanting, Mamatming Iminov (Uyghur), Yang Heting, Qi Guo, Lin Bomin, Aishaiti Iskhakov (Tatar)
• Members: Li Quan, Yang Ke, Zhang Zhonghan, Zhang Shigong, Patihan Sugurbayev (Kazakh), Zhang Xiqin, Abdurahman Muyiti (Uyghur), Ren Gebai, Tu Zhi, Bai Chengming, Zuo Qi, Anwar Khan Baba (Uzbek), Seyit Yasinov (Uyghur), Shi Zizhen, Yu Zhanlin (Hui), Cheng Yuechang, Shu Mutong (Xibe), Tian Zhong, Guo Peng, Anwar Jakulin (Kazakh), Shi Jinhe, Zhang Fengqi
• Alternate Members (13 in total, including 7 ethnic minority members): Amantur Bayzak (Kyrgyz), Liu Fensheng, Fu Wen, Nur Mohammad Shadinov (Uyghur), Wang Jilong; Abuliz Mukhamet (Uyghur), Jakhda Babarykov (Kazakh), Wu Jianqun, Li Yunhe, Lü Ming (female), Abulimiti Hajiyev (Uyghur), Dashab Minzhuliyov (Mongol), Abdurim Aisha (Uyghur)

First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee

• Wang Enmao (1955–1966)

Head of the Core Group of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee

• Long Shujin (1970–1971)

First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee

• Long Shujin (1971–1972)
• Saifuddin Azizi (acting, 1972–1973)
• Saifuddin Azizi (1973–1978)
• Wang Feng (1978–1981)
• Wang Enmao (1981–1985)

Party Secretaries of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee before the Eighth Congress

• Song Hanliang (October 1985 – September 1994)
• Wang Lequan (24 September 1994 – 24 April 2010; acting September 1994 – September 1995)
• Zhang Chunxian (24 April 2010 – 29 August 2016)
• Chen Quanguo (29 August 2016 – 25 December 2021)

Eighth Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee (October 2011 – November 2016)

• Secretary: Zhang Chunxian (– August 2016), Chen Quanguo (from August 2016)
• Deputy Secretaries: Nur Bekri (Uyghur, – December 2014), Che Jun (– June 2016), Han Yong (– January 2016), Shohrat Zakir (Uyghur, from December 2014), Sun Jinlong (from February 2016), Zhu Hailun (from March 2016), Li Pengxin (from September 2016)
• Standing Committee Members: Zhang Chunxian (– August 2016), Nur Bekri (Uyghur, – December 2014), Che Jun (– June 2016), Han Yong (– January 2016), Peng Yong (– November 2013), Huang Wei (– September 2016), Xiao Kaiti Yiming (Uyghur), Nurlan Abdumanjin (Kazakh, – January 2013), Song Airong (female, – April 2015), Zhu Hailun, Bai Zhijie (– January 2016), Kuresh Mahsut (Uyghur, – March 2014), Erkinjan Turahon (Uyghur), Hu Wei (– June 2013), Xiong Xuanguo (– October 2016), Hanibati Shabukai (Kazakh, from January 2013), Li Xuejun (from June 2013), Liu Lei (November 2013 – December 2014), Erkin Tuniyaz (Uyghur, from June 2014), Shohrat Zakir (Uyghur, from December 2014), Ma Xuejun (from April 2015), Xu Hairong (from April 2015), Li Wei (from July 2015), Sun Jinlong (from February 2016), Peng Jiarui (from March 2016), Chen Quanguo (from August 2016), Li Pengxin (from September 2016)

9th Regional Party Committee (November 2016–October 2021)

• Secretary: Chen Quanguo
• Deputy Secretaries: Shohrat Zakir (until September 2021), Sun Jinlong (until April 2020), Zhu Hailun (until January 2019), Li Pengxin (until February 2021), Wang Junzheng (April 2020–October 2021), Zhang Chunlin (from April 2021), Li Yifei (from July 2021), Erkin Tuniyaz (from September 2021), He Zhongyou (from October 2021)
• Other Standing Committee members: Shewket Imin (until January 2018), Erkinjan Turaxun (until March 2017), Xu Hairong (until October 2021), Li Xuejun (April 2018), Erkin Tuniyaz, Ma Xuejun (until July 2018), Peng Jiarui (until March 2017) Tian Wen, Aqanulı Sarqıt, Luo Dongchuan (May 2017–July 2018), Li Wei (January 2018–December 2020), Zhang Chunlin (from January 2018), Yang Xin (August 2018–May 2021), Ji Zheng (September 2018–December 2019), Wang Junzheng (February 2019–October 2021), Li Yifei (from May 2020), Wang Mingshan (from September 2020), Tian Xiangli (from May 2021), Chen Weijun (from May 2021), Yang Cheng (from June 2021), Zhang Zhu (from September 2021), He Zhongyou (from October 2021), Ilzat Exmetjan (from October 2021)

10th Regional Party Committee (October 2021–)

• Secretary: Chen Quanguo (until 25 December 2021), Ma Xingrui (from 25 December 2021)
• Deputy Secretaries: Erkin Tuniyaz, Li Yifei, Zhang Chunlin (until November 2023), He Zhongyou, Zhang Zhu (from December 2023)
• Other Standing Committee members: Yang Cheng, Tian Xiangli, Chen Weijun, Wang Mingshan (until February 2024), Zumret Obul (until January 2023), Yang Fasen (until May 2023), Yüsüpjan Memet, Ilzat Exmetjan, Qadan Käbenuly, Wang Jianxin (from December 2022), Chen Mingguo (from February 2024)

See also

• Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Committee of Chinese Communist Party

References

1. 中共新疆维吾尔自治区第一次代表大会简介 [Introduction to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region]. Xinjiang Party Building Network (in Chinese). 8 September 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
2. "总汇 | 31个省份机构改革方案全部获批（图表）". Sohu . 17 November 2018. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
3. "Decoding Chinese Politics". Asia Society . Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
4. "Decoding Chinese Politics: Party Center". Asia Society . Retrieved 11 October 2024.
5. 冯小青（自治区党委党史研究室） (2016-09-08). "中共新疆维吾尔自治区第一次代表大会简介" (in Simplified Chinese). 昆仑网，来源：《新疆党史》. Archived from the original on 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2017-06-16.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
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Traditional Chinese	中國共產黨 新疆維吾爾自治區 委 員 會
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