CHINA-INTERNAL: ELECTED CHONGQING DELEGATES EXCLUDED FROM LIST OF DELEGATES TO 19TH PARTY CONGRESS

In a rare move, five senior Chinese Communist Party officials in Chongqing who were earlier elected to represent the centrally administered Municipality at the upcoming 19th National Party Congress have been excluded from the final list of attendees of 2,287 delegates.  The Congress will be held in Beijing from October 18 - 28, 2-017. A total of 13, out of 43 Chongqing officials who had been elected, were excluded from the list. The five top officials are: Zeng Qinghong (f), who was head of the Organisation Department of  the Municipal Party Committee; Liu Qiang, who is in charge of the police and judicial departments in the city and is also a Chongqing vice mayor; Wang Xiangang, head of the secretariat of the Chongqing Party Committee; Chen Lüping, also a vice mayor; and Tao Changhai, who heads liaisons with overseas Chinese groups. 55-year old Zeng Qinghong, was replaced as head of Chongqing’s Organization Department by Hu Wenrong, an official transferred from the eastern province of Shandong, according to Chongqing Daily which is owned by the Municipality. 





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