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
TypeHighest decision-making organ when Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Congress is not in session.
Elected byXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Congress
Length of termFive years
Term limitsNone
First convocationNovember 1949
Leadership
SecretaryMa Xingrui
Deputy SecretaryErkin Tuniyaz (Government Chairman)
Li Yifei (XPCC Political Commissar)
He Zhongyou (Party Secretary of Ürümqi)
Zhang Zhu (Xinjiang Organization Department Director)
Secretary-GeneralQadan Käbenuly
Executive organStanding Committee
Inspection organCommission for Discipline Inspection
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Simplified Chinese中国共产党新疆维吾尔自治区
Traditional Chinese中國共產黨新疆維吾爾自治區
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū Wěiyuánhuì
Abbreviation
Simplified Chinese中共新疆维吾尔自治区委
Traditional Chinese中共新疆維吾爾自治區委
Literal meaningCCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōnggòng Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū Wěi

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The CCP 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 Xinjiang Branch of the CCP Central Committee. 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
  • 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
First Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
Early Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee (September 1955 – 1956)[5]
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
Head of the Core Group of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee
First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee
Party Secretaries of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee before the Eighth Congress
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)

10th Regional Party Committee (October 2021–)

See also

References

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  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.
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  4. ^ "Decoding Chinese Politics: Party Center". Asia Society. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
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