BEIJING: China's parliament on Sunday (Mar 12) approved the cabinet line-up nominated by Premier Li Qiang, who took office on Saturday in a once-in-five years reshuffle. Also durin
Also during the National People's Congress , Xi Jinping was confirmed for a third five-year term as president.Ding Xuexiang, 60, is the first-ranked vice premier who also sits in the ruling Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, China's top echelon of power. He is a trusted acolyte of Xi, and was Xi's chief of staff first in 2006 in Shanghai and for the past 10 years in Beijing.
Liu Guozhong, 60, was formerly Communist Party chief of Shaanxi province, where Xi has ancestral roots.Li Shangfu, 65, also becomes the defence minister. He had worked in China's satellite programme and is's main arms exporter, Rosoboronexport. Shen Yiqin, 63, becomes the highest-ranking woman in China. Observers were surprised when the Communist Party broke with tradition andFor the first time in decades there were no female vice premiers as well. Shen, the former party chief of Guizhou province, is the only female state councillor.
Zheng Shanjie, 61, takes over from He Lifeng as head of the National Development and Reform Commission. Zheng has spent most of his career in his native Fujian province where he had served as director of Fujian Provincial Development and Reform Commission and vice governor of Fujian province.
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