The secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the secretary is the highest ranking post in Xinjiang.
The secretary is officially appointed by the CCP Central Committee based on the recommendation of the CCP Organization Department, which is then approved by the Politburo and its Standing Committee. The secretary can be also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Xinjiang Regional Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Regional Committee, and since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. The secretary leads the work of the Regional Committee and its Standing Committee and is ex officio the first-ranking political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The secretary is outranks the chairman, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee and is customarily an ethnic Uyghur. Except for Saifuddin Azizi, the secretary as always been an ethnic Han.
The current secretary is Chen Xiaojiang, who took office on 1 July 2025.
List of party secretaries ImageNameTerm startTerm end1Wang Zhen (王震)(1908–1993)October 1949June 19522Wang Enmao (王恩茂)(1913–2001)June 195219673Long Shujin (龙书金)(1910–2003)May 1971July 19724Saifuddin Azizi (赛福鼎·艾则孜)(1915–2003)July 1972January 19785Wang Feng (汪锋)(1910–1998)January 1978October 19816Wang Enmao (王恩茂)(1913–2001)October 1981July 19857Song Hanliang (宋汉良)(1934–2000)July 198524 September 19948Wang Lequan (王乐泉)(born 1944)24 September 199424 April 20109Zhang Chunxian (张春贤)(born 1953)24 April 201029 August 201610Chen Quanguo (陈全国)(born 1955)29 August 201625 December 202111Ma Xingrui (马兴瑞)(born 1959)25 December 20211 July 202512Chen Xiaojiang (陈小江)(born 1962)1 July 2025Incumbent
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