New Xinjiang Party chief appointed

The Communist Party of China Central Committee has appointed Chen Xiaojiang as the new secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC.

Ma Xingrui, who no longer serves as the Party chief of the region, will be appointed elsewhere, according to a decision by the CPC Central Committee.

Born in 1962, Chen has been the executive deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee since 2022. Previously, he served as director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission as well as deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission and deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection — China's top graft watchdogs.