Tomur Dawamat, Vice-Chairman of NPC Standing Committee

Following is a biographicalsketch of Tomur Dawamat:

Tomur Dawamat, male; of Uygur ethnic group; born June, 1927; anative of Toksun, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; joinedCommunist Party of China (CPC) December, 1952; started work May,1950; graduated from Central Institute for Nationalities; collegeeducation.

Served as vice-chairman of Xinjiang Autonomous RegionalPeople's Committee, 1964-1968; secretary of CPC XinjiangAutonomous Regional Committee, chairman of Standing Committee ofAutonomous Regional People's Congress, vice-minister of StateNationalities Affairs Commission, 1979-1985.

Served as deputy secretary of CPC Xinjiang Autonomous RegionalCommittee, 1985-1996; vice-chairman and chairman of AutonomousRegional People's Government, 1985-1994.

Serving as vice-chairman of NPC Standing Committee since 1993.

Member of 12th to 14th CPC Central Committees and member of Fifth NPC Standing Committee, and vice-chairman of Eighth NPCStanding Committee.