Shohrat Zakir
| Shohrat Zakir | |
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| شۆھرەت زاكىر 雪克来提·扎克尔 |
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| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region | |
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Assumed office January 2015 Acting: December 2014 – January 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nur Bekri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 1953 (age 63) Yining (Ghulja), Xinjiang, China |
| Nationality | People's Republic of China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Shohrat Zakir (Uyghur: شۆھرەت زاكىر; born August 1953), is a Chinese politician of Uyghur origin and, since December 2014, the Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the deputy party chief of Xinjiang. He was born in Yining (Ghulja). He went to Tianjin University. He was the former Mayor of Urumqi. He studied computer science in Hubei province.
Zakir was born into a family with revolutionary history. His grandfather Kaur Zakir was a progressive thinker during the warlord era and was executed by state agents along with Mao Zemin and Chen Tanqiu. His father Abdullah Zakrof was one of the earliest ethnic Uyghurs to join the Xinjiang party organization shortly after the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949. Prior to the Cultural Revolution Zakir's father was a member of the regional standing committee and Vice-Chairman of Xinjiang.
Between 1970 and 1972 Zakir received "re-education through labour" in rural Xinjiang. He then worked as a teacher in an elementary school in Urumqi. He was transferred to Diwopu school in 1972. In March 1978 he left his homeland for Hubei to attend the Jianghan Petroleum College (now Yangtze University) located in Jingzhou to study computer science. He then returned to Xinjiang to serve as a researcher at an earth sciences institute. In June 1984 he joined government, working for the regional economic committee.
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