Career
Tomur is an ethnic Uyghur. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964. He held high position in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolution Committee from 1968 to 1979, and then became Chief of the People"s Congress of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before he took office as the chairman of Xinjiang in 1985.
