Kurmash Syrzhanuly

Qūrmaş Syrjanūly
Құрмаш Сыржанұлы
Governor of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
In office February 2016 – April 2021
Party Secretary	Zeng Cun Zhao Tianjie
Preceded by	Mänen Zeýnelulı
Succeeded by	Qadan Käbenuly
Personal details
Born	May 1959 (age 64) Jinghe County, Xinjiang, China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Kuitun Normal College Xinjiang University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	库尔玛什·斯尔江
Traditional Chinese	庫爾瑪什·斯爾江
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Kùěrmǎshí Sīěrjiāng

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Kurmash, and not as Syrjanuly.

Kurmash Syrzhanuly (Kazakh: Құрмаш Сыржанұлы, romanized: Qurmaş Sırjanulı, born May 1959) is a Chinese politician of Kazakh ethnicity who served as governor of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture between 2016 and 2021.

Biography

Qūrmaş Syrjanūly was born in Jinghe County, Xinjiang, in May 1959. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in June 1984, and entered the workforce in the following month. He graduated from Kuitun Normal College and Xinjiang University.

After university, he worked at Xinjiang Academy of Forestry Sciences. Beginning in December 1987, he served in several posts in the Organization Department of CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, including section member, deputy director, and investigator. He became deputy director of the Administration of Press and Publication of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in August 2007 before being appointed deputy head of the Organization Department of CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee in March 2008. In August 2013, he was made deputy secretary of its Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts. In February 2016, he took office as governor of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, replacing Mänen Zeýnelulı. He is now a member of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.