Nur Bekri Uygur Özerk Bölgesi Valisi English Biography Nur Bekri, born August 1961 in Bole, Xinjiang) is the current Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. He is of Uyghur ethnicity and was born and raised in his native Xinjiang. He has spent his entire life in the Region, aside from a short stint