Nur Bekri

Nur Bekri
نۇر بەكرى‎ 努尔·白克力
Nur in 2010
Director of the National Energy Administration
In office 9 January 2015 – 2 October 2018
Premier	Li Keqiang
Preceded by	Wu Xinxiong
Succeeded by	Zhang Jianhua
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office 22 January 2008 – 31 December 2014
Party Secretary	Wang Lequan Zhang Chunxian
Preceded by	Ismail Tiliwaldi
Succeeded by	Shohrat Zakir
Personal details
Born	9 August 1961 (1961-08-09) (age 63) Bole (Bortala), Xinjiang, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (expelled; 1982–2019)
Alma mater	Xinjiang University Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	努尔·白克力
Traditional Chinese	努爾·白克力
Hanyu Pinyin	Nǔ'ěr Báikèlì
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nǔ'ěr Báikèlì
Uyghur name
Uyghur	نۇر بەكرى‎
Transcriptions Siril Yëziqi Нур бəкри

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Nur Bekri (Uyghur: نۇر بەكرى; Chinese: 努尔·白克力; born 9 August 1961) is a Chinese former politician of Uyghur ethnicity, best known for his term as Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between 2008 and 2014. Between 2014 and 2018, he was vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Energy Administration, with rank equivalent of a minister. Bekri was one of the highest ranked ethnic minority officials in the Chinese government.

Bekri was born and raised in Xinjiang. Prior to his transfer to Beijing, he spent his entire life in the region, aside from a short stint as the Deputy Mayor of Feicheng, Shandong Province. He is also former Mayor of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang. In 2019, he was dismissed from his posts, expelled from the Communist Party and sentenced to life in prison for corruption.