New provincial, regional Party secretaries chosen

The Communist Party of China Central Committee announced the appointments of new Party secretaries for Hubei and Qinghai provinces and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Tuesday.

Wang Menghui, former minister of housing and urban-rural development, was appointed Party chief of Hubei, replacing Ying Yong.

Born in 1960, Wang attended the department of architecture at Tsinghua University and has a doctorate in engineering. He worked at the university from 1983.

In 1993, he entered politics in Guangdong province as vice-mayor of the county-level city of Panyu, now a district in Guangzhou, the provincial capital. He became mayor of Shanwei, Guangdong, in 2004.

In 2011, Wang became vice-governor of Fujian province. In 2016, he was named deputy Party chief of Liaoning province. In 2017, he became minister of housing and urban-rural development.

Xin Changxing, former governor of Qinghai province, was appointed Party chief of Qinghai on Tuesday, in place of Wang Jianjun.

Xin was born in 1963. He obtained a master's degree in political economics at Huazhong Normal University in 1986.

In 2010, he was named vice-minister of human resources and social security. In 2014, he became director of the National Civil Service Administration.

Xin served as deputy Party chief of Anhui province from 2016 before he was appointed deputy Party chief of Qinghai in 2020.

Also on Tuesday, Liang Yanshun, deputy Party chief in charge of the daily affairs of the working committee of departments directly under the CPC Central Committee and State organs, replaced Chen Run'er as Party chief of Ningxia.

Born in 1962, Liang has a doctorate in economics. He served as deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the CPC between 2018 and 2020.