Tömür Dawamat

Tömür Dawamat
تۆمۈر داۋامەت
铁木尔·达瓦买提
Tömür Dawamat (left) in November 1964
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
27 March 1993 – 15 March 2003
ChairmanQiao Shi
Li Peng
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office
1985–1993
Preceded byIsmail Amat
Succeeded byAblet Abdureshit
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress
In office
1979–1985
Preceded bynew position
Succeeded byHamudun Niyaz
Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee
In office
March 1964 – September 1968
ChairmanSaifuddin Azizi
Personal details
Born(1927-06-16)June 16, 1927[1]
Toksun, Xinjiang, Republic of China
DiedDecember 19, 2018(2018-12-19) (aged 91)
Beijing, China
Resting placeBabaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
Political partyChinese Communist Party
This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Tömür, and not as Dawamat.

Tömür Dawamat (Uyghur: تۆمۈر داۋامەت, romanized: Tömür Dawamet; Chinese: 铁木尔·达瓦买提; pinyin: Tiěmù'ěr Dáwǎmǎití; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.[2]

Tömür was an ethnic Uyghur. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964. He held a high position in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolution Committee from 1968 to 1979 and then became Chief of the People's Congress of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before he took office as the chairman of Xinjiang in 1985. After his chairmanship, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.[3]

Tömür Dawamat died on December 19, 2018, at the age of 91.[4]

References

  1. ^ "铁木尔·达瓦买提：贫困农民家庭走出的维吾尔族国家领导人". cpc.people.com.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on December 19, 2018. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  2. ^ "历任政府领导". Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  3. ^ "铁木尔·达瓦买提简历". Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  4. ^ "铁木尔·达瓦买提同志逝世，享年92岁". The Paper. December 19, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
Preceded by Chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
1985–1993 		Succeeded by


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