Shohrat Zakir

Shohrat Zakir
雪克来提·扎克尔
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 2015
(Acting since December 2014)
Preceded by Nur Bekri
Personal details
Born August 1953 (age 61)
Yining (Ghulja), Xinjiang, China
Nationality People's Republic of China
Political party Communist Party of China

Shohrat Zakir (Chinese: 雪克来提·扎克尔; born August 1953), is a Chinese politician of Uyghur origin and the Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the deputy party chief of Xinjiang. He was born in Yining (Ghulja).[1] He went to Tianjin University. He was the former Mayor of Urumqi. He studied computer science in Hubei province.[1]

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