New provincial Party chiefs appointed for Shanxi, Anhui

BEIJING - Yuan Chunqing, governor of Shaanxi - a northwestern province known for its Terracotta Warriors - has been appointed Party secretary of the coal mine-rich province of Shanxi.

Yuan, 58, replaced 60-year-old Zhang Baoshun, who has been moved to East China's Anhui province to be Party secretary there, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee announced on Monday.

Anhui's Party secretary, Wang Jinshan, has reached 65, a standard retirement age for China's ministerial-level officials.