Ma Xingrui | |||||||||||
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| 马兴瑞 | |||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg) Ma in 2016 | |||||||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang | |||||||||||
| Assumed office 25 December 2021 | |||||||||||
| Deputy | Erkin Tuniyaz (chairman) | ||||||||||
| General secretary | Xi Jinping | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chen Quanguo | ||||||||||
| Governor of Guangdong | |||||||||||
| In office 30 December 2016 – 25 December 2021 | |||||||||||
| Leader | Hu Chunhua (2016–2017) Li Xi (2017 onwards) | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Zhu Xiaodan | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Weizhong | ||||||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen | |||||||||||
| In office 26 March 2015 – 30 December 2016 | |||||||||||
| Deputy | Xu Qin (mayor) | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Wang Rong | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Xu Qin | ||||||||||
| Director of the China National Space Administration | |||||||||||
| In office March 2013 – November 2013 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chen Qiufa | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Xu Dazhe | ||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||
| Born | October 1959 (age 65) Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China | ||||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Liaoning University of Technology Tianjin University Harbin Institute of Technology | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马兴瑞 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬興瑞 | ||||||||||
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Ma Xingrui (Chinese: 马兴瑞; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
Ma is recognized as one of China's top scientists. Ma served as Vice President of Harbin Institute of Technology, General Manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Director of the China National Space Administration, and chief commander of Chang'e 3, China's first lunar exploration mission. He later served as the Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Guangdong, Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen, Deputy Party Secretary of Guangdong, and Governor of Guangdong. He became the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang in December 2021 and a member of the Politburo in October 2022.