Shohrat Zakir
Shohrat Zakir | |||||||
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| Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |||||||
| Assumed office March 10, 2023 | |||||||
| Chairman | Zhao Leji | ||||||
| Chairman of Xinjiang | |||||||
| In office January 24, 2015 – September 30, 2021 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Nur Bekri | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Erkin Tuniyaz | ||||||
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress | |||||||
| In office January 2014 – December 2014 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Arken Imirbaki | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Neyim Yasin | ||||||
| Mayor of Ürümqi | |||||||
| In office March 2001 – December 2005 Acting: December 2000 – March 2001 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Nur Bekri | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Neyim Yasin | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | August 1953 (age 72) | ||||||
| Party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Parent | Abdulla Zakirov | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 雪克来提·扎克尔 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 雪克來提·扎克爾 | ||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | شۆھرەت زاكىر | ||||||
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Shohrat Zakir (Chinese: 雪克来提·扎克尔; Uyghur: شۆھرەت زاكىر; born August 1953) is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who served as the chairman of Xinjiang and the deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee from 2014 to 2021.
Born in Yining (Ghulja), he studied computer science in Hubei Province, and later attended Tianjin University. Between 2000 and 2005, he served as the mayor of Ürümqi. He served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between 2015 and 2021. Between 2017 and 2022, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In March 2023, he was appointed a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.