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| name =Shohrat Zakir
| native_name = {{nobold|شۆھرەت زاكىر<Br>{{lang|zh-hans|雪克来提·扎克尔}}}}
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| office1 = [[Politics of Xinjiang|Chairman]] of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]]
| term_start1 = January 2015<br><small> Acting: December 2014 – January 2015</small>
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| predecessor1 = [[Nur Bekri]]
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|df=yes| August 1953}}
| birth_place = [[Yining City|Yining]] (Ghulja), [[Xinjiang]], China
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'''Shohrat Zakir''' ({{lang-ug|شۆھرەت زاكىر}}; born August 1953), is a Chinese politician of [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] origin and, since December 2014, the [[Politics of Xinjiang|Chairman]] of the [[Xinjiang]] Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the deputy party chief of Xinjiang. He was born in [[Yining City|Yining]] (Ghulja).<ref name=xhw>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2014-01/21/c_126035896.htm 雪克来提·扎克尔，新华网，2014-01-21]</ref> He went to [[Tianjin University]]. He was the former Mayor of [[Urumqi]]. He studied computer science in [[Hubei]] province.<ref name=xhw/>

==Career==
Zakir was born into a family with revolutionary history. His grandfather Kaur Zakir was a progressive thinker during the [[warlord era]] and was executed by state agents along with [[Mao Zemin]] and [[Chen Tanqiu]]. His father Abdullah Zakrof was one of the earliest ethnic Uyghurs to join the Xinjiang party organization shortly after the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949. Prior to the Cultural Revolution Zakir's father was a member of the regional [[Provincial Party Standing Committee|standing committee]] and Vice-Chairman of Xinjiang.<ref>{{cite news|author=大公网|title="红色黑马"雪克来提|url=http://news.takungpao.com/mainland/focus/2015-01/2877351.html|accessdate=2015-01-13|newspaper=大公网}}</ref>

Between 1970 and 1972 Zakir received "[[re-education through labour]]" in rural Xinjiang. He then worked as a teacher in an elementary school in [[Urumqi]]. He was transferred to Diwopu school in 1972. In March 1978 he left his homeland for Hubei to attend the Jianghan Petroleum College (now [[Yangtze University]]) located in [[Jingzhou]] to study computer science. He then returned to Xinjiang to serve as a researcher at an earth sciences institute. In June 1984 he joined government, working for the regional economic committee.

Between 1982 and 1986, Zakir obtained an English degree at the Urumqi Vocational College. During this time he also joined the Communist Party of China. He then worked in a series of roles supporting economic growth and trade in the regional government. In March 2001 he was named mayor of Urumqi. Beginning in December 2005 he worked for the [[Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps]]. In 2007 he also earned an [[Executive MBA]] from [[Tianjin University]]. At the [[2008 National People's Congress]] Zakir was selected to become a member of the National Ethnic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. In June 2011 he became Vice-Chair of the [[State Ethnic Affairs Commission]]. In January 2014 he became Chairman of the Xinjiang People's Congress,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.163.com/api/14/0120/20/9J2E5ML90001124J.html|title=雪克莱提·扎克尔当选新疆人大常委会主任|publisher=网易新闻|date=2014-01-20|accessdate=2014-01-20}}</ref> and in December 2014, he was named Chairman of Xinjiang, replacing [[Nur Bekri]].

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