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

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the region, and also ex officio leads the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The current secretary is Ma Xingrui, a member of the CCP Politburo, who succeeded Chen Quanguo on 25 December 2021.

History

In November 1949, during the incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China at the end of the Chinese Civil War, the CCP Central Committee approved the establishment of the CCP Central Committee Xinjiang Branch. After the Xinjiang Province was transformed to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1955, the Party Central Committee Xinjiang Branch was abolished and replaced with the Xinjiang Uygur Regional Committee of the CCP. ^[1]

Organization

The organization of the CCP XUAR Committee includes: ^[2]

• General Office

Functional Departments

• Organization Department
• Propaganda 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

Party Secretary

Secretary of the 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书记 جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيەسى شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونلۇق كومىتېتىنىڭ شۇجىسى
Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent Ma Xingrui since 25 December 2021
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Status	Local head of party
Nominator	Regional Committee
Appointer	Regional Committee
Inaugural holder	Wang Zhen
Formation	1949
Deputy	Deputy Secretary of the Regional Committee

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 Deputy Committee Secretary. ^[3]

No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		Wang Zhen (陈锡联) (1908–1993)	October 1949	June 1952
2		Wang Enmao (王恩茂) (1913–2001)	June 1952	1967
3		Long Shujin (龙书金) (1910–2003)	May 1971	July 1972
4		Saifuddin Azizi (赛福鼎·艾则孜) (1915–2003)	July 1972	January 1978
5		Wang Feng (汪锋) (1910–1998)	January 1978	October 1981
6		Wang Enmao (王恩茂) (1913–2001)	October 1981	July 1985
7		Song Hanliang (宋汉良) (1934–2000)	July 1985	24 September 1994
8		Wang Lequan (王乐泉) (born 1944)	24 September 1994	24 April 2010	[4]
9		Zhang Chunxian (张春贤) (born 1953)	24 April 2010	29 August 2016	[5]
10		Chen Quanguo (陈全国) (born 1955)	29 August 2016	25 December 2021	[6]
11		Ma Xingrui (马兴瑞) (born 1959)	25 December 2021	Incumbent	[7]

Party Committees

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)

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