Ecology, environment minister to transfer to Shandong

Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, has been transferred to East China's Shandong province as deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, according to a report from the province's official newspaper, Dazhong Daily. 

The 55-year-old also was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shandong Committee. The appointment was announced in a Standing Committee meeting on Thursday morning, the report said. 

Li began to work as head of the defunct Ministry of Environmental Protection in June 2017, which was reshuffled into the current Ministry of Ecology and Environment in March 2018. 

Since graduating from the country's prestigious Tsinghua University with a master's degree in nuclear engineering in 1989, Li has spent most of his time working in the country's top environmental apparatus though he also worked as deputy Party chief of North China's Hebei province for about half a year from 2016 to 2017.  

Before 2006, he was mainly in posts related to nuclear management.