Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party


The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party 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. 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.

Organization

The organization of the CCP XUAR Committee includes:
  • 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. Since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo.

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
  • First Secretary: Wang Enmao
  • Second Secretary: Xu Liqing
  • Third Secretary: Saifuddin Azizi
  • First Deputy Secretary: Gao Jinchun
  • Second Deputy Secretary: Wu Kaizhang
  • Members : Wang Enmao, Xu Liqing, Saifuddin Azizi, Gao Jinchun, Wu Kaizhang, Burhan Shahidi, Zhao Shougong, Lü Jianren, Xin Lanting, Yang Heting
; First Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee
  • First Secretary: Wang Enmao
  • Secretaries: Saifuddin Azizi, Wu Kaizhang, Lü Jianren, Zeng Di, Saidulla Saifullayev
  • Members
  • Standing Committee Members: Wang Enmao, Saifuddin Azizi, Wu Kaizhang, Lü Jianren, Zeng Di, Saidulla Saifullayev, Burhan Shahidi, Xin Lanting, Mamatming Iminov, Yang Heting, Qi Guo, Lin Bomin, Aishaiti Iskhakov
  • Members: Li Quan, Yang Ke, Zhang Zhonghan, Zhang Shigong, Patihan Sugurbayev, Zhang Xiqin, Abdurahman Muyiti, Ren Gebai, Tu Zhi, Bai Chengming, Zuo Qi, Anwar Khan Baba, Seyit Yasinov, Shi Zizhen, Yu Zhanlin, Cheng Yuechang, Shu Mutong, Tian Zhong, Guo Peng, Anwar Jakulin, Shi Jinhe, Zhang Fengqi
  • Alternate Members : Amantur Bayzak, Liu Fensheng, Fu Wen, Nur Mohammad Shadinov, Wang Jilong; Abuliz Mukhamet, Jakhda Babarykov, Wu Jianqun, Li Yunhe, Lü Ming, Abulimiti Hajiyev, Dashab Minzhuliyov, Abdurim Aisha
; First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee
  • Wang Enmao
; Head of the Core Group of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee
; First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee
  • Long Shujin
  • Saifuddin Azizi
  • Saifuddin Azizi
  • Wang Feng
  • Wang Enmao
; Party Secretaries of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee before the Eighth Congress
; Eighth Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee
9th Regional Party Committee
10th Regional Party Committee
  • Secretary: Chen Quanguo, Ma Xingrui
  • Deputy Secretaries: Erkin Tuniyaz, Li Yifei, Zhang Chunlin, He Zhongyou, Zhang Zhu
  • Other Standing Committee members: Yang Cheng, Tian Xiangli, Chen Weijun, Wang Mingshan, Zumret Obul, Yang Fasen, Yüsüpjan Memet, Ilzat Exmetjan, Qadan Käbenuly, Wang Jianxin, Chen Mingguo