Zhang Zhizhong
In July 1946, after further negotiations between Zhang Zhizhong of the Nationalist Chinese government and Ehmetjan Qasim of the ETR, the two sides agreed to form a coalition provincial government with Zhang as chairman and Qasim as vice-chairman. Abdulkerim Abbas was appointed as deputy-secretary general. Qasim and Abbas agreed to set aside the ETR's declaration of independence. Elihan Tore was removed from Xinjiang to the Soviet Union. In December 1946, Abbas attended the National Assembly in Nanjing as a delegate from Xinjiang.