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Ma Xingrui (Chinese: 马兴瑞; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang. Prior to that, he had served as the Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Guangdong, Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen, Deputy Party Secretary of Guangdong, and Governor of Guangdong. Ma is a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.

Ma Xingrui
马兴瑞
Ma in 2016
Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 December 2021
Deputy	Erkin Tuniyaz (chairman)
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Chen Quanguo
Governor of Guangdong
In office 30 December 2016 – 25 December 2021
Leader	Hu Chunhua (2016–2017) Li Xi (2017 onwards)
Preceded by	Zhu Xiaodan
Succeeded by	Wang Weizhong
Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen
In office 26 March 2015 – 30 December 2016
Deputy	Xu Qin (mayor)
Preceded by	Wang Rong
Succeeded by	Xu Qin
Director of the China National Space Administration
In office March 2013 – November 2013
Preceded by	Chen Qiufa
Succeeded by	Xu Dazhe
Personal details
Born	October 1959 (age 63) Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Liaoning University of Technology Tianjin University Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	马兴瑞
Traditional Chinese	馬興瑞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mă Xīngruì Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Maa5 Hing3-seoi6

Ma is recognized as one of China's top scientists.[1] He previously served as Vice President of Harbin Institute of Technology, General Manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Director of the China National Space Administration, and chief commander of Chang'e 3, China's first lunar exploration mission.

Education and academic career

Ma Xingrui was born in October 1959 in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang province, to a family of mine workers in China's industrial northeast.[2] His branch of the family migrated from Yuncheng County, Shandong to Shuangyashan in the 1930s during his grandfather's generation.[2] He received a bachelor's degree at Fuxin Mining College (now Liaoning University of Technology) in 1982, and went on to graduate school for general mechanics at Tianjin University. He earned his doctorate in mechanics at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1988. He stayed at HIT to pursue post-doctoral work, and was named a professor in 1991. In April 1992 he became dean of the school of mechanics at the institute. In April 1996 he was named vice president of the institute.[3]

Aerospace industry

In May 1996 Ma was appointed Vice-Dean of Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST), and became the leader and chief engineer of the Shijian 5 satellite project. In 1999 he was named deputy general manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). In December 2003 he was additionally appointed Chairman of the Sino Satellite Communications Company and worked on various lunar missions.[3] In September 2007, Ma was promoted to General Manager of CASC.[4]

In 2013 Ma was appointed Director of the China National Space Administration,[1] Director of the China Atomic Energy Authority, Director of the SASTIND, and Vice-Minister of Industry and Information Technology.[4] He was the chief commander of the successful Chang'e 3 mission, China's first lunar surface exploration.[1]

Political career

In 2012, Ma was elected as a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[4] In November 2013, Ma left his posts in the world of science and was transferred to Guangdong to serve as deputy party secretary of the province and concurrently the Secretary of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission. In March 2015, he was named Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen, replacing Wang Rong.[1] Ma's appointment in Shenzhen placed him in his first executive party leadership role. His appointment also elevated the status of the office, given that his predecessor Wang is only an alternate member of the Central Committee, while Ma is a full member.[5]

In December 2016, Ma was appointed as the acting Governor of Guangdong. In a break with tradition, Ma became the first governor in over 30 years to have not been native to the province.[6] Ma was elected as the Governor of Guangdong on 23 January 2017.[7]

In December 2021, Ma was appointed as the secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[8][9] Since his accession to the post, Xinjiang has seen relative normalization in some aspects, such as turnstiles between residential areas being removed and two-day breaks in weekends for public officials being restored.[10]

References

Government offices
Preceded by Zhu Xiaodan	Governor of Guangdong 2016–2021	Succeeded by Wang Weizhong
Preceded by Chen Qiufa	Director of State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense 2013	Succeeded by Xu Dazhe
Party political offices
Preceded by Chen Quanguo	Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 2021–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Wang Rong	Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen 2015–2016	Succeeded by Xu Qin
Preceded by Zhu Mingguo	Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission 2013–2015	Succeeded by Lin Shaochun [zh]
	Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong 2013–2016	Succeeded by Ren Xuefeng

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