Shohrat Zakir

Shohrat Zakir
شۆھرەت زاكىر 雪克来提·扎克尔
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2023
Chairman	Zhao Leji
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office January 2015 – September 2021
Preceded by	Nur Bekri
Succeeded by	Erkin Tuniyaz
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress
In office January 2014 – December 2014
Preceded by	Arken Imirbaki
Succeeded by	Neyim Yasin
Mayor of Ürümqi
In office March 2001 – December 2005 Acting: December 2000 – March 2001
Preceded by	Nur Bekri
Succeeded by	Neyim Yasin
Personal details
Born	August 1953 (age 71) Yining (Ghulja), Xinjiang, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Parent	Abdullah Zakrof
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	雪克来提·扎克尔
Traditional Chinese	雪克來提·扎克爾
Hanyu Pinyin	Xuěkèláití Zhākè'ěr
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xuěkèláití Zhākè'ěr
Uyghur name
Uyghur	شۆھرەت زاكىر‎
Transcriptions Siril Yëziqi Шɵһрəт Закир

Shohrat Zakir (Uyghur: شۆھرەت زاكىر, Chinese: 雪克来提·扎克尔; born August 1953) is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee from 2014 to 2021.

Born in Yining (Ghulja), he studied computer science in Hubei Province, and later attended Tianjin University. Between 2000 and 2005, he served as the mayor of Ürümqi. He served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between 2015 and 2021. Between 2017 and 2022, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In March 2023, he was appointed a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.