Bagatur

Bagatur
ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠦᠷ
Bagatur in 2020
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Assumed office
14 March 2018
ChairmanWang Yang
Wang Huning
Head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
In office
28 April 2016 – 14 December 2020
PremierLi Keqiang
Preceded byWang Zhengwei
Succeeded byChen Xiaojiang
Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
8 April 2016 – 26 December 2020
HeadSun Chunlan
You Quan
Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
In office
12 January 2009 – 30 March 2016
Party SecretaryHu Chunhua
Wang Jun
Preceded byYang Jing
Succeeded byBu Xiaolin
Personal details
BornFebruary 1955 (age 69)
Kangping, Liaoning, China
NationalityMongolian Chinese
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1981–present)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese巴特尔
Traditional Chinese巴特爾
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBātè'ěr

Bagatur or Bater (Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠦᠷ; born February 1955) is a Chinese Communist Party politician of Mongol ancestry, formerly serving as the Chairman of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission. A career party functionary with background in the Communist Youth League, Bagatur steadily ascended the ranks of government, spending his entire career in Inner Mongolia. Between 2009 and 2016, he served as Chairman of Inner Mongolia.

As the Chairman of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission from 2016 to 2020, he was responsible for the relations between the Central Government and the other 55 ethnic minorities in China (such as Uyghurs, Tibetans etc.).