Peng Jiarui (; born April 1961) is Chinese military officer and politician currently serving as vice chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and vice chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He previously served as commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. He joined the

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(CCP) in December 1983. He was a representative of the 17th,

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, and

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. He is a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress.

Biography

Peng was born in

Wuwei County Wuwei () is a county-level city in the southeast of Anhui Province, China, under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Wuhu. Previously a county, Wuwei was upgraded to a county-level city in late 2019. It has population of 1,214,000 as ...

, Gansu, in April 1961. In 1979, he entered Xinjiang Political and Legal Cadre School, majoring in public security. He worked in

Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, s=昌吉回族自治州; ug, سانجى خۇيزۇ ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى) is an autonomous prefecture for Hui people in the middle north of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. The ...

after university in 1981, where he eventually became deputy party secretary and vice governor in 2001. In October 2004, he was promoted to become party secretary of

Tacheng Prefecture Tacheng Prefecture is located in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 935,600 (2017). It is a part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The prefecture level city of Karamay forms a separate enclav ...

, a position he held until July 2011, when he was appointed party secretary of

Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Bayingolin (; often abbreviated to Bayingol; also as Bayinguoleng) is an autonomous prefecture for Mongol people in the southeast of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. It borders Gansu to the east, Qinghai to the southeast and ...

. He was appointed secretary-general of CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee in December 2015 and in March 2016 was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, the region's top authority. He was made vice chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in March 2017, concurrently serving as commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and vice chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On 31 July 2020, the

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imposed

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sanctions and visa restrictions against Peng, together with

Sun Jinlong Sun Jinlong (; born January 1962) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2016 as the Party Branch Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Sun came to prominence in 2001, serving on the Secretariat of the Communist Youth Leag ...

for their connection to similar human rights abuse against the ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

References

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