Jiang Jufeng, former deputy governor of southwest China's
Sichuan Province, was elected acting governor of the province by
the provincial legislature on Tuesday.
Jiang was elected to the post at the 26th session of the
Standing Committee of the 10th Sichuan Provincial People's
Congress, which also accepted the resignations of governor Zhang
Zhongwei and deputy governor Yang Zhiwen.
Jiang, 59, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, graduated
from Fudan University in Shanghai. He became a member of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1982. Jiang worked as secretary
of the CPC Wenzhou City Party Committee in Zhejiang, from June 1998
to March 2002. Jiang has been deputy governor of Sichuan since
April 2002. Zhang Zhongwei, 65, had been governor of Sichuan since
2000. Yang Zhiwen, 60, was elected Sichuan deputy governor in
2003.
(Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2007)