He also served as secretary of its Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts.
In April 1994, he was appointed secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, a position he held until October 1998, when he was transferred to Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and appointed deputy party secretary.
In July 2000, he moved back to Ürümqi and became director of Radio, Film and Television Administration of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
He concurrently served as head of United Front Work Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
On 26 January 2018, he was proposed as chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.