New PKU Party chief, president appointed

Hao Ping, Party secretary of Peking University, has been named the university's 28th president, according to the website of the Ministry of Education on Tuesday.

Hao, who has served as the university's Party secretary since December 2016, succeeds Lin Jianhua, who led PKU for more than three years.

Qiu Shuiping, 56, was named the university's new Party secretary. Qiu has served as president of the Shanxi High People's Court since January 2017. Previously, he worked as a senior official in Beijing from 1996 to 2017.