Xinjiang party committee approves unspecified administrative-division matter

NEW YORK — The Chinese Communist Party’s Xinjiang committee reviewed and approved a matter concerning administrative divisions at its second plenary session in Urumqi on Nov. 6, Xinjiang Daily, the committee’s newspaper, reported the next day.

Erkin Tuniyaz, the regional chairman and deputy party secretary, explained the item to the committee, the report said. It did not identify the areas involved, describe the change or say when it would take effect. The rest of the two-day account concerns the committee’s adoption of documents implementing the Central Committee’s October resolution on party discipline.

Changes to county-level and higher administrative divisions in China require State Council approval, so the committee’s vote is a step in that process rather than a final decision. Közet could not establish which jurisdictions are affected.