Peng Jiarui

In this Chinese name, the family name is Peng.

Peng Jiarui
彭家瑞
Commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
In office April 2017 – February 2022
Preceded by	Liu Xinqi
Succeeded by	Xue Bin
Personal details
Born	April 1961 (age 65) Wuwei County, Gansu, China
Party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Xinjiang Political and Legal Cadre School Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service	?–present
Unit	2nd Division and 9th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

Peng Jiarui (Chinese: 彭家瑞; pinyin: Péng Jiāruì; born April 1961) is a Chinese military officer and politician currently serving as vice chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and vice chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He previously served as commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1983. He was a representative of the 17th, 18th, and 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He is a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress.

Biography

Peng was born in Wuwei County, Gansu, in April 1961. In 1979, he entered Xinjiang Political and Legal Cadre School, majoring in public security. He worked in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture after university in 1981, where he eventually became deputy party secretary and vice governor in 2001. In October 2004, he was promoted to become party secretary of Tacheng Prefecture, a position he held until July 2011, when he was appointed party secretary of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. He was appointed secretary-general of CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee in December 2015 and in March 2016 was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, the region's top authority. He was made vice chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in March 2017, concurrently serving as commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and vice chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On 31 July 2020, the United States government imposed Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions and visa restrictions against Peng, together with Sun Jinlong for their connection to similar human rights abuse against the ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. On 10 December 2024, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Mélanie Joly announced Canada's sanctions against Peng and seven other government officials of Xinjiang and Tibet involved in serious human rights violations.