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Biography Revised: 8/2/2005
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Zhang Zhou
Zhang Zhou
Former Vice-Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Born: 1954

Biography

Zhang Zhou, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xingtang, Hebei Province. He was born in September of 1954 and is a graduate of the Central Party School. He graduated from the Agricultural Machinery Department of Bayi Agricultural College in 1982. An engineer, he joined the CPC in 1985.

While he is from Hebei Province, Zhang has spent the bulk of his career in Xinjiang. In 1971, he traveled to the region to become a worker in the Yecheng Maintenance Division before leaving to spend three years with the Kashi Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing and Maintenance Factory.

In the 1980s, he worked as the deputy director and later the director of the Hutubi Stud Husbandry. The short stint managing a livestock husbandry company was subsequently followed by a series of Bayingguoleng Prefecture government positions. He was deputy chief executive, deputy Party secretary, and Party secretary in the prefecture before ascending to the vice-chairmanship of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1998.

Career Data

1998—2005 Vice-Chairman, Autonomous Region People's Government Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
1996—1999 Student, CPC, Central Committee, Central Party School
1995—1998 Secretary, CPC, Autonomous Prefectural Committee Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayinguoleng Mongol Prefecture
1993—1995 Deputy Secretary, CPC, Autonomous Prefectural Committee Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayinguoleng Mongol Prefecture
1991—1995 Deputy Chief Executive, Autonomous Region People's Government Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayinguoleng Mongol Prefecture
1989—1990 Student, CPC, Autonomous Regional Committee, General Office Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
1982—1984 Staff Member, Livestock Husbandry Department, Livestock Farm Management Division Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
1978—1982 Graduate, Bayi Agricultural College, Agricultural Machinery Department Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
1975—1979 Worker, Kashi Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing and Maintenance Factory Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Kashi Prefecture
1971—1975 Worker, Maintenance Department Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Yecheng


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