Southernmost city to get new Party chief, mayor

China's southernmost city - Sansha, Hainan province - will celebrate its fifth anniversary in July and will soon have a new Party chief and mayor.

Tian Xiangli, deputy secretary of the Politics and Law Committee of the Communist Party of China's Hainan Provincial Committee, has been nominated Party chief of Sansha, which was established in July 2012, according to an announcement on Monday.

Tian, 54, a native of Jiangsu province, has a master's degree in law and an MBA.