She attended Tashkent Normal University of Technology in the Soviet Union, graduating in 1933.

In 1937 she began working at the Xinjiang Consulate in Zaisan, a border town in the Soviet Union.

She also became deputy director of the Xinjiang Women's Federation, joined the Kuomintang and married Burhan Shahidi, a prominent Uyghur politician.

After the Chinese Civil War, she became deputy head of the Children's Welfare Department of the All-China Women's Federation, served as a member of the All-China Women's Federation Presidium and was a delegate to the second to seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

A member of the standing committee of the Islamic Association of China,[2] She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1985.