Ma Fuxiang ; a Hui Muslim; was born in Linxia; Gansu; China. He was named the military governor of Xining; and then of Altay; in Qing times. He held a large number of military posts in the northwestern region after the founding of the republic. He was governor of Qinghai in 1912; Ningxia from 1912 to 1920; and Suiyuan from 1920 to 1925. Having turned to Chiang Kai-shek in 1928; he was made chairman of the government of Anhui in 1930. He was elected a member of the National Government Commission; and then appointed the mayor of Qingdao; special municipality. He was also the president of the Mongolian-Tibetan Commission and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. He died in August 1932.