Ismail Amat

Ismail Amat (* 1935 in Qira , Hotan , Xinjiang ; † October 16, 2018 ) was a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP) who, among other things, has been the vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress since 2003 .

Life

The the Turkic ethnic group of Uyghur belonging Ismail Amat was after school in 1952, first working, but became involved after joining the CCP in 1953 in the party and its mass organizations and was 1954 to 1962 not only secretary of the Communist Youth League of China and Vice Secretary of the County Committee the Qira CCP, but also a judge at the Qira County People's Court. He also studied in the Xinjiang class at the CCP Central Party School from 1960 to 1962.

After graduating from college, he first became deputy head of the propaganda department in the Hotan District Committee of the CCP in 1963, before serving as the deputy director of the Cultural, Educational and Political Work Department of the CCP's Xinjiang Autonomous Region from 1966 to 1967 . Later, during the second phase of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1972, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Revolutionary Committee in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, as well as the local head of the group for cultural, educational and health work.

Ismail Amat then became secretary of the area committee and head of the Xinjiang CCP's organization department in 1972, and held this post until 1985. At the same time, he was vice chairman of the cultural revolution on the revolutionary committee and chairman of the people's government of the Xinjiang autonomous region.

At the Xth Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1973 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and belonged to this body until the XVII. 2007 party congress.

In 1978 he became a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and held this office until 1983. In addition, Ismail Amat was Minister and Chairman of the State Commission for Ethnic Affairs between 1985 and 1998 and, at the same time, Secretary of the party leadership in this commission. He was also vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese People from 1988 to 1993 and a member of the State Council from 1993 to 2003 .

He has also been the director of the State Council's coordination committee for the work of people with disabilities since 1998 and vice-chairman of the International Committee on Natural Disasters since 2000.

Since 2003, Ismail Amat has been one of the vice-chairs of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, a 150-member body of the National People's Congress that carries out the work of representing the people between the planning meetings.

Web links

• Entry (chinavitae.com)
• Entry (english.people.com)
• Entry (peopledaily.com)
• Ismail Amat: Ethnic Unity and social stability is key (interview on YouTube )