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New Beijing Municipal Government Elected

A new Beijing municipal government was elected during the first meeting of the 12th people's congressof Beijing which concluded Sunday.

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New Beijing Municipal Government Elected

A new Beijing municipal government was elected during the first meeting of the 12th people's congressof Beijing which concluded Sunday.

Elected by more than 700 delegates, Meng Xuenong was elected mayor of the Beijing municipal government, while Liu Jingmin, ZhaoMao, Zhai Hongxiang, Liu Zhihua, Sun Anmin, Fan Boyuan, Niu Youcheng and Lu Hao were elected vice mayors.

Averaging 51 years of age, the new government is widely considered to be relatively young and well educated. The mayor andall of the vice mayors hold either bachelor's or master's degrees.

The new mayor, Meng Xuenong, 53, a master's degree holder, was born in east China's Shandong Province. He has worked in Beijing and in east China's Zhejiang Province. In December 1998, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and deputy mayor of the Beijing municipal government.

Lu Hao, 35, the youngest of the new lineup, holds a master's degree in economics from prestigious Peking University. He will be in charge of the city's industrial sector.

Niu Youcheng, a former CPC district committee secretary in the Daxing District of Beijing, is familiar with the city's agricultural sector.

Fan Boyuan served as a Party secretary and as director of the Beijing Science and Technology Commission before being elected vice mayor.

Sun Anmin served as chairman of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce before being elected vice mayor.

New mayor pledges to help city's low-income earners

The foremost issue for Meng is to improve the living conditions of low-income earners in urban and rural areas and assist laid-off workers to find new jobs, he said during a news conference with foreign and Chinese journalists covering the congress.

He said the newly-elected municipal government needs to solve the difficult problem of resettlement of families affected by the recent demolition of ramshackle housing, providing them with more economically affordable homes and cheap-rent apartments.

More high-profile work will come as Beijing is to fully implement its action plan for the 2008 Olympic Games in the coming five years.

Construction, transportation, environmental protection, cultural and historic relics preservation, as well as other economic and social development issues are cramming the agenda for the new government.

Meng pledged the municipal government will focus on further using scientific decision-making processes, maintaining a clean and honest government and ensuring the qualification of civil servants.

He also introduced his eight vice-mayors -- who were newly elected during the congress -- to the media, including Liu Jingmin, who is in charge of the construction sector and work in preparation for the 2008 games, and Lu Hao, the youngest leader in Meng's government, who is 35-year old and will mainly address industrial issues.

The week-long first session of the congress also elected Yu Junbo as director of the Standing Committee of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress.

While at the first session of the Beijing Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, which closed on Friday, Cheng Shi'e, 62, a senior engineer in the light industry sector, was elected as chairwoman of the city's government advisory body.

Nationwide, a new team of younger and better-educated provincial leaders were elected at their congresses at the weekend.

They were: Ji Yunshi, as governor of North China's Hebei Province; Li Chengyu, as governor of Henan Province in Central China; Zhang Yunchuan, as governor of Central China's Hunan Province, Li Zhaozhuo, as chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China and Legqog, as chairman of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

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