Zulfiya Abdiqadir

Zulfiya Abdiqadir (born May 1966) is a Uyghur civil servant in the People's Republic of China.

Zulfiya Abdiqadir
زولفيا عبدالقادر 祖丽菲娅·阿不都卡德尔
Head of the Transport Department of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 July 2015
Preceded by	Nijat Sultan
Bureau Chief of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Regional Road Transportation Administrative Bureau
In office August 2008 – 14 July 2015
Preceded by	Erkin Abdurëhim
Succeeded by	Ilham Ablet
Personal details
Born	May 1966 (age 58) Yining (Ghulja), Xinjiang, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Education	Xinjiang Eighteen Agricultural Institute Chinese Communist Party School of Xinjiang

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Zulfiya, and not as Abdiqadir.

Education

Zulfiya completed her undergraduate degree at what is now the Xinjiang Agricultural University in Ürümqi. She completed her master's at the Chinese Communist Party School of Xinjiang.^[1]

Career

In 1984, Zulfiya joined the science and technology branch of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Regional Road Transportation Administrative Bureau. Over the next 18 years, she worked in other branches of the department, including vehicle management, project management, and safety regulations. In 2002, Zulfiya was appointed the bureau's chief economic engineer.^[1]

Zulfiya became a member of the bureau's CCP Committee in 2004. In 2007, she was appointed deputy bureau chief and put in charge of administrative affairs. Less than one year later, Zulfiya became Deputy Committee Secretary of the bureau's CCP Committee, as well as bureau chief.^[1]

She served as a representative for Xinjiang at the 11th National People's Congress from 2008 to 2013.^[2]

In 2015, Zulfiya was appointed to head of the Transport Department of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and became the deputy secretary of the department's CCP Committee.^[1]

References

1. "祖丽菲娅·阿布都卡德尔" [Zulfiya Abdiqadir]. Xinjiang Transport Department (in Chinese). Retrieved 24 February 2017.
2. Zhuang 庄, Yu 彧, ed. (25 July 2015). "祖丽菲娅·阿不都卡德尔(女)任新疆自治区交通厅厅长" [Zulfiya Abdiqadir (female) is appointed head of the Transport Department of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]. China Economic News (in Chinese). Retrieved 24 February 2017.