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NEW XINJIANG PARTY CHIEF

Ma Xingrui, former Governor of Guangdong Province, was appointed secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on December 25, 2021.

Born in 1959, Ma earned his PhD in 1988, specializing in flight dynamics at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), and in 1993 became the dean of the institute’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, before being named HIT’s vice president in 1996.

From 1996 to 2012, he held several senior positions at the China Academy of Space Technology and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.

In 2013, Ma was appointed vice minister of industry and information

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