Nur Bekri

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Nur Bekri نۇر بەكرى 努尔·白克力

Chairman of Xinjiang
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 January 2010
Preceded by	Ismail Tiliwaldi
Personal details
Born	9 August 1961 (1961-08-09) (age 52) Bole, Xinjiang, China
Political party	Communist Party of China

Nur Bekri
努尔·白克力
نۇر بەكرى

Simplified Chinese

努尔·白克力

Traditional Chinese

努爾·白克力

Hanyu Pinyin

Nǔ'ěr Báikèlì

Transcriptions
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nǔ'ěr Báikèlì

Nur Bekri (born 9 August 1961 in Bole, Xinjiang) is the Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. He is of Uyghur ethnicity and was born and raised in Xinjiang. He has spent his entire life in the Region, aside from a short stint as the Deputy Mayor of Feicheng, Shandong. He is also former Mayor of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.

Political career

He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in December 1982. He had served as deputy party secretary of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China since January 2005.

Nur Bekri was appointed at the 35th session of the Standing Committee of the 10th Xinjiang Regional People's Congress in Urumqi to replace Ismail Tiliwaldi, who resigned as Chairman in December 2007.

After the 2009 Urumqi riots, Bekri delivered the televised address in which he elaborated on the situation that has led up to the violence and then condemned who he deemed to be coordinators of the attack,^[1] including Ilham Tohti, founder of Uyghur Online, a website that criticized the governor and his policies.^[2] He was the highest-ranked government official to deliver a televised speech on this issue.

References

↑ Xinjiang Chairman delivers speech on unrest (Chinese)
↑ Wong, Edward (15 July 2009). "Intellectuals Call for Release of Uighur Economist". New York Times. Retrieved 17 July 2009.

Political offices
Preceded by Ismail Tiliwaldi	Chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 2007 – present	Incumbent

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Autonomous regions (Chairmen)	Guangxi: Chen Wu Inner Mongolia: Bagatur Ningxia: Liu Hui Tibet: Losang Jamcan Xinjiang: Nur Bekri

SARs (Chief Executives)	Hong Kong: CY Leung (Leung Chun-ying) Macau: Fernando Chui Sai On

v t e CPC Committee Secretaries and Chairmen of Xinjiang

CPC Committee Secretaries	Wang Zhen Wang Enmao Long Shujin Saifuddin Azizi Wang Feng Wang Enmao Song Hanliang Wang Lequan Zhang Chunxian

Chairmen	Saifuddin Azizi Long Shujin Saifuddin Azizi Wang Feng Ismail Amet Tömür Dawamat Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit Ismail Tiliwaldi Nur Bekri

Persondata
Name	Nur Bekri
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese politician
Date of birth	1961
Place of birth	Bole, Xinjiang, China
Date of death
Place of death

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