CPC Central Committee Decides on Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing CPC Leaders

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CPC Central Committee Decides on Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing CPC Leaders

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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has decided on CPC leaders in Beijing, the national capital, Shanghai, China's largest city, and Chongqing, a major city in southwest China.

Jia Qinglin is succeeded by Liu Qi as secretary of the municipal CPC committee of Beijing, while Huang Ju is succeeded by Chen Liangyu as secretary of Shanghai's municipal CPC committee.

Jia and Huang, both members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, are transferred to posts at the central authorities.

He Guoqiang is succeeded by Huang Zhendong as secretary of Chongqing's municipal CPC committee. He is assigned to another post.

Chen Liangyu appointed CPC Shanghai chief

According to a decision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chen Liangyu is appointed the secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, replacing Huang Ju who has been transferred to work for the central authorities.

Chen, 56, currently mayor of Shanghai, has consecutively served as deputy director of the Shanghai Pengpu Machinery Plant, deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Metallurgy and Mining Machinery Corporation Committee, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Electrical Appliances Corporation Committee, deputy director and later director of the Retired Cadre Bureau under the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, deputy secretary and head of the CPC Shanghai Huangpu District Committee, head of the Huangpu District, and deputy secretary general of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.

From October 1996, Chen served successively as deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and vice Shanghai mayor. He was appointed acting mayor of Shanghai in accordance with a decision reached at a session of the Municipal People's Congress in December 2001 and mayor of Shanghai by the congress on Feb. 26,2002.

Born in October 1946, Chen Lianyu, a native of Ningbo city in east China's Zhejiang province, graduated from the PLA (the Chinese People's Liberation Army) Institute of Rear-service Engineering in 1968.

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