Saifuddin Azizi

Saifuddin Azizi
  • سەيپىدىن ئەزىزى
  • 赛福鼎·艾则孜
CCP Committee Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office
July 1972 – January 1978
(Acting: July 1972 – June 1973)
Preceded byLong Shujin
Succeeded byWang Feng
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee
In office
October 1955 – January 1967
Preceded byBurhan Shahidi
(as Governor of Xinjiang)
Succeeded byLong Shujin
Other positions
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
27 March 1993 – 13 March 1998
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
27 September 1954 – 27 March 1993
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Political Consultative Conference
In office
February 1955 – September 1955
Preceded byBurhan Shahidi
Succeeded byBurhan Shahidi
Minister of Education of the East Turkestan Republic
In office
13 March 1945 – 27 June 1946
Preceded byHabib Yunich
Personal details
Born(1915-03-12)12 March 1915
Artush, Xinjiang, Qing dynasty
Died24 November 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 88)
Beijing, China
NationalityChinese
Political partyChinese Communist Party (joined 1949)
Other political
affiliations
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1935–1949)
Democratic Revolutionary Party (1947–1948)
East Turkestan Revolutionary Party (1946–1947)
Awards Order of Liberation (First Class)
Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service
Rank Lieutenant General of the PLA
Battles/warsIli Rebellion (1944–1946)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese赛福鼎·艾则孜
Traditional Chinese賽福鼎·艾則孜
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSaìfúdǐng Àizézī
Wade–GilesSai4-fu2-ting3 Ai4-tse2-tzu1
IPA[sâɪfǔtìŋ âɪtsɤ̌tsɹ̩́]
Uyghur name
Uyghurسەيپىدىن ئەزىزى
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiSeypidin Ezizi
Yengi YeziⱪSəypidin Əzizi
Siril YëziqiСəйпидин Əзизи
Russian name
RussianСайфутдин Азизов
RomanizationSayfutdin Azizov

Saifuddin Azizi (officially transcribed as Seypidin Azizi;[1][2] 12 March 1915 – 24 November 2003) was a Chinese politician who occupied several top positions in the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). An ethnic Uyghur, he is best known for serving as the first chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as well as (to date) the only Communist Party committee secretary for the region who was ethnically Uyghur. Before the proclamation of the PRC in 1949, he served in the government of the breakaway Second East Turkestan Republic, as Minister of Education.

  1. ^ "Yu Zhengsheng attends symposium commemorating Seypidin Azizi". www.cppcc.gov.cn. National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
  2. ^ "Noted Uygur leader Seypidin Azizi dies". People's Daily. 25 November 2003.