Off the wire
News Analysis: Firms' annual results reveal shifting economic landscape  • Vietnam party official stresses importance of Vietnam-China ties  • Hamas dug tunnels in Gaza twice more than in Vietnam: Haneya  • China says Indonesian high-speed railway project not suspended  • Australian cricket legend Shane Warne shuts down controversial charity  • Indian stocks rally on Japanese negative interest rate  • Major news items in leading German newspapers  • Sun Yang injured in Australia training  • Curling results at China's National Winter Games  • Volkswagen recalling 2,120 SUVs over fire hazard  
You are here:   Home

Yin Li elected governor of Sichuan

Xinhua, January 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Yin Li was elected governor of southwest China's Sichuan Province at a session of the provincial legislature on Friday.

Yin, 54, a native of Linyi, Shandong Province, has held the vice governor and acting governorship of Sichuan after the resignation of former governor Wei Hong was accepted by the standing committee of the provincial legislature a week ago.

Wei was suspected of "severe disciplinary violations," said Wu Yuliang, deputy chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, earlier this month.

Yin was vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission before being appointed deputy secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee in March 2015. Endi