Erkinjan Turaxun | |||||||
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ئەركىنجان تۇراخۇن | |||||||
Head of United Front Work Department of CCP Hubei Provincial Committee | |||||||
In office April 2017 – June 2022 | |||||||
Preceded by | Liang Huiling | ||||||
Succeeded by | Ning Yong | ||||||
Communist Party Secretary of Tacheng Prefecture | |||||||
In office January 2015 – March 2017 | |||||||
Preceded by | Zhang Bo | ||||||
Succeeded by | Xue Bin | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | June 1964 (age 60) Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China | ||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Alma mater | Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics Xinjiang University Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 尔肯江·吐拉洪 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 爾肯江·吐拉洪 | ||||||
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Erkinjan Turaxun (Uyghur: ئەركىنجان تۇراخۇن, Әркинҗан Турахун; Chinese: 尔肯江·吐拉洪; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who served as chairman of the Hubei Federation of Trade Unions, vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and head of United Front Work Department of Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 to 2022. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1985, and entered the workforce in July that same year.
He was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Erkinjan Turaxun was born in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, in June 1964. In 1981, he was admitted to Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, majoring in planning statistics. After graduation, he worked at the Communist Youth League of China of the university.
In May 1999, he was promoted to become secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the Communist Youth League of China, a position he held until July 2003, when he was transferred to Beijing and appointed secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. In May 2008, he was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority. One month later, he was made chairman of the Xinjiang Federation of Trade Unions and vice chairman of All-China Federation of Trade Unions. In January 2015, he was appointed party secretary of Tacheng Prefecture, the top political position in prefecture.[1]
In April 2017, Erkinjan Turaxun was transferred to Central China's Hubei province, where he took office as head of United Front Work Department of Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and chairman of Hubei Federation of Trade Unions.[2][3]