In 2015, Abdiqadir was appointed to head of the Transport Department of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and became the deputy secretary of the department’s Party Committee.

She served as a representative for Xinjiang at the 11th National People’s Congress from 2008 to 2013.

Abdiqadir became a member of the bureau’s Party Committee in 2004. In 2007, she was appointed deputy bureau chief and put in charge of administrative affairs. Less than one year later, Abdiqadir became deputy secretary of the bureau’s Party Committee, as well as bureau chief.

In 1984, Abdiqadir joined the science and technology branch of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Regional Road Transportation Administrative Bureau. Over the next 18 years, she worked in other branches of the department, including vehicle management, project management, and safety regulations. In 2002, Abdiqadir was appointed the bureau’s chief economic engineer.

Zulfiya Abdiqadir (born May 1966) is a Uyghur civil servant in the People’s Republic of China.