Wang Xuejun elected governor of east China province

HEFEI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Wang Xuejun was elected governor of east China's Anhui Province by the local legislature on Thursday.

The election was held at the second session of the 12th Anhui Provincial People's Congress.

Wang, born in December 1952, had served as director of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls for nine years, before which he worked in the northern province of Hebei.

Wang was transferred to Anhui on March 21 as the deputy head of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He was appointed acting governor of Anhui on March 27.

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