Chen Quanguo | |
|---|---|
陈全国 | |
 Chen in 2020 | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang | |
| In office 29 August 2016 – 25 December 2021 | |
| Deputy |
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| General secretary | Xi Jinping |
| Preceded by | Zhang Chunxian |
| Succeeded by | Ma Xingrui |
| Communist Party Secretary of Tibet | |
| In office 25 August 2011 – 28 August 2016 | |
| Governor | |
| General secretary |
|
| Preceded by | Zhang Qingli |
| Succeeded by | Wu Yingjie |
| Governor of Hebei | |
| In office 15 December 2009 – 27 August 2011 | |
| Leader | Zhang Qingli (party secretary) |
| Preceded by | Hu Chunhua |
| Succeeded by | Zhang Qingwei |
| Deputy Head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group | |
| In office 14 June 2022 – 22 October 2022 | |
| Leader | Hu Chunhua |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 1955 (age 68–69) Pingyu County, Henan, China |
| Political party | CCP (since 1976) |
| Alma mater | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | China |
| Branch/service | People's Liberation Army |
| Years of service | 1973–1977 |
Chen Quanguo (Chinese: 陈全国; pinyin: Chén Quánguó; born November 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2016 and of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2016 to 2021, making him the only person to serve as the Party Secretary for both autonomous regions. Between 2017 and 2022, he was a member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and was also Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps concurrently with his position as Xinjiang Party Secretary.
Originally from Henan, Chen was among the first batch of students to graduate university after the resumption of Gaokao examinations in 1978. Chen worked up the ranks in the party bureaucracy in his home province from a minor local official to the deputy provincial party chief. In 2009, he became Governor of Hebei. In 2011 he became the Communist Party Secretary, the top official, of the Tibet Autonomous Region, developing the region economically and instituting greater policing surveillance.[1]
In 2016, Chen was promoted to the party secretary of Xinjiang. He has since then attracted press for overseeing Xinjiang internment camps targeting Turkic minorities in the region, and he is considered as one of the main architects of the persecution of Uyghurs in China.[2] In both Tibet and Xinjiang, he has earned a reputation for applying draconian measures to sinicize the traditional cultures.[3][4][5][6] In 2022, he was given a post in the Central Rural Work Leading Group of the CCP, and retired later that year after the 20th CCP National Congress, when he was not re-elected to the CCP Central Committee.
- ^ Ben Blanchard, China appoints new Tibet governor, hardline policies to remain, (29 January 2013), Archived 28 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine [Reuters ref dead, replaced with this ref]
- ^ "The Architect of China's Muslim Camps Is a Rising Star Under Xi". Bloomberg News. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ Michael Dillon, Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China, Archived 13 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine Reaktion Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1-780-23952-1 p.155 :'Chen introduced new, draconian methods of repression, most of which he had rehearsed in Tibet.'
- ^ Gulbahar Haitiwaji with Rozenn Morgat Our souls are dead': how I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs,' Archived 12 January 2021 at the Wayback MachineThe Guardian 12 January 2021
- ^ 'Uyghur jailed for nine years in secret trial,' Archived 16 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Amnesty International 10 September 2020
- ^ 'Relentless Detention and Prosecution of Tibetans under China’s “Stability Maintenance” Campaign,' Archived 14 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine Human Rights Watch 22 May 2016