About Seypidin Azizi
Seypidin Azizi (12 March 1915 – 24 November 2003) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and educator of Uyghur ethnicity from the western border city of Tacheng. He is best known for his tenure as the first chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Government. He also occupied top positions at the national level, including Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Before the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Seypidin was a progressive leader of the Ili Rebellion, which sought to establish an independent East Turkestan. He was the Second East Turkestan Republic's education minister from 1945 to 1946 and a member of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party's central executive committee from 1946 to 1947. == Early life and political activities == Seypidin Azizi was born in the Xinjiang border city of Tacheng to an influential Uyghur trader family originally from Artush. He attended school in Xinjiang and then moved to the Soviet Union in 1935, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and studying at the Central Asia Political Institute in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. He returned to Xinjiang as a Soviet agent, instigating a Soviet-backed rebellion against the Kuomintang's Republic of China government in 1937. He was deemed a "radical young man" by the Chinese warlord Sheng Shicai, who controlled most of that area at the time, resulting in his exile back to Tacheng. Following the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he advocated resistance against Japan and was appointed as the secretary-general and vice-president of the Tacheng Uyghur Culture Promotion Association (Chinese: 塔城维吾尔文化促进会). He was apprehended by the Kuomintang in Tacheng during the celebration of International Labor Day on 1 May.
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