CHINA-LEADERSHIP
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Some key promotions of cadres close to Chinese President Xi Jinping were effected recently. Lin Duo, considered a protege of Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) Chairman Wang Qishan, was appointed Governor of Gansu province in April. Hu Heping, 54, was also promoted in April as Governor of Xi Jinping’s home province of Shaanxi, his third new position in two and a half years. The appointment makes Hu Heping, a doctorate of civil engineering from the University of Tokyo, the country’s second youngest provincial governor. His career in Shaanxi started as late as last April, a year and a half after he entered politics. For more than 10 years, Hu Heping was a Tsinghua University colleague of Chen Xi, who is now the first ranking Deputy Director of the Chinese Communist Party’s powerful Organisation Department, which oversees cadres’ appointments at vice-ministerial level or above. Chen Xi was Xi Jinping’s classmate and roommate at college. Xi Jinping’s former subordinate, 57-year old Wang Xiaohong, now Beijing’s police chief, was appointed Deputy Public Security Minister earlier this month. Wang Xiaohong was Xi Jinping’s subordinate during the President’s entire stint in Fujian province. Wang Xiaohong began his career in Fujian, where he remained until August 2013.
(Comments: The appointment of Lin Duo, 60, was unusual as he has never worked in the western province, nor has he been a governor of any province. Lin’s appointment, which made him a provincial cadre, effectively postponed his retirement for five years until 2021.
The Ministry of Public Security has seen major personnel movements since Xi came to power. Four of the seven deputy ministers have been appointed since 2012.)
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