Career
In 1931 he joined the army under General Ma Bufang. Han was transferred from Qinghai to Xinjiang to serve in the 5th Cavalry Army under General Ma Chengxiang in the Ili Rebellion to fight against Soviet backed Uyghur rebels. Han Youwen (Han Yu-wen) said "that he believed the border should be about 40 miles to the north of the mountains" to A. Doak Barnett, an American reporter.
Han Youwen commanded the Pau-an-dui (pacification soldiers), composed of 340 man battalions, of which he had three.
They were made out of many troops, including Kazaks, Mongols, and White Russians serving the Chinese regime. He served with Osman Batur and his Kazakh forces in battling the ETR Ili Uyghur and Soviet forces around Altai. he continued to serve as an officer from 1949-1953 in the People"s Liberation Army, "commander of the 7th Cavalry Division in the 22nd army".
In 1953-1954 Han was then transferred to "3rd deputy chief of staff in Xinjiang Military Area Command". The "China report" reported that in 1985 Han served as vice chairman of the "CPPCC committee" of Xinjiang, also as chairman of the "Chinese Nationalist Party revolution Committee"s" Xinjiang branch.
The report also contained a speech Han gave at a meeting.
In 1985 Han Youwen went on Hajj as part of an official delegation from China. He served as one of the three Vice Chairman of Xinjiang under the Communist state. On January 16, 1993, in the People"s Hall of Ürümqi he had been elected by the third session of the fourth CPPCC committee of Xinjiang, his election was reported by the media.