Ma Xingrui

Ma Xingrui
马兴瑞
Ma in 2016
Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang
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 65) 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 Mǎ Xīngruì Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Maa5 Hing3-seoi6

Ma Xingrui (Chinese: 马兴瑞; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.

Ma is recognized as one of China's top scientists. Ma 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. He later 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. He became the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang in December 2021 and a member of the Politburo in October 2022.