Burhan Shahidi
Burhan Shahidi | |||||||||
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Burhan in 1950 | |||||||||
| Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |||||||||
| In office 12 September 1980 – 10 April 1988 | |||||||||
| Chairman | Deng Xiaoping Deng Yingchao | ||||||||
| In office 25 December 1954 – 5 January 1965 | |||||||||
| Chairman | Zhou Enlai | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Political Consultative Conference | |||||||||
| In office October 1955 – March 1964 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Seypidin Azizi | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Enmao | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government | |||||||||
| In office October 1949 – January 1955 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | new position | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Seypidin Azizi (Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee) | ||||||||
| Governor of Xinjiang | |||||||||
| In office 30 December 1948 – September 1949 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Masud Sabri | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yulbars Khan (in exile) | ||||||||
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| Born | 3 October 1894 | ||||||||
| Died | 27 August 1989 (aged 94) | ||||||||
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| Spouse | Reshide Khanum | ||||||||
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| Allegiance | Republic of China (until 1949) People's Republic of China (from 1949) | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 包尔汉·沙希迪 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 包爾漢·沙希迪 | ||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur | بۇرھان شەھىدى | ||||||||
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| Russian name | |||||||||
| Russian | Бурхан Шахиди | ||||||||
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| Tatar | Борһан Шәһиди Borhan Şähidi | ||||||||
Burhan Shahidi (3 October 1894 – 27 August 1989) was a Chinese politician who occupied several top positions in Xinjiang, initially in the government of the Republic of China (ROC) and then government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). An ethnic Tatar originally from Kazan, Russia, he served as the ROC's vice-chairman in the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province, formed between the ROC and the Second East Turkestan Republic in 1946. After the coalition government's dissolution the following year and the incorporation of Xinjiang into the PRC in 1949, Burhan joined the Chinese Communist Party and was appointed the first and only chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government, before it became the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Government in 1955. He later served as the vice-chairman of the second, third, fifth, and sixth national committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was also the founder and inaugural president of the Islamic Association of China.