Off the wire
• 1st Ld: Russian official says U.S. missile strike in Syria act of aggression  • Urgent: Syrian army says 6 killed in U.S. missile strike  • Roundup: Samsung logs near-record profit in Q1 despite absence of heir  • Urgent: Trump accepts Xi's invitation to visit China  • Turkey views U.S. missile strikes on Syria positively: Deputy PM  • Chinese scientists pioneer new method to absorb oil spills  • UN chief says organization needs clear mandates, right strategies to support peace  • Chinese shares close higher Friday  • Scientists complete genome sequencing for scallop  • Afghan security forces kill 28 militants within day: gov't  
You are here: 　 Home

Xu Qin appointed acting governor of Hebei

Xinhua, April 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

Xu Qin was appointed vice governor and acting governor of north China's Hebei province on Friday.

The decision was announced at a morning session of the standing committee of the provincial legislature, which also accepted the resignation of governor Zhang Qingwei

Xu, who was born in 1961, graduated from the Beijing Institute of Technology with a major in optoelectronics, according to an introduction from the official website of the Hebei provincial government.

He had worked with the National Development and Reform Commission and earned a doctorate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University before moving to south China's Shenzhen in 2008, where he served as the mayor from June 2010 to March 2017. Endi