China reassigns posts of principal provincial leaders

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has decided to reassign posts of leading officials of Anhui province in east China and Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.

In accordance with the CPC Central Committee decisions, made public Thursday, Guo Jinlong becomes secretary of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee, leaving his former post as secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee.

Born in 1947, Guo Jinlong is a native of Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Physics Department of Nanjing University in 1969.

Before this post transfer, Guo also had job experience in culture and education, as head of a county, director of a rural policy research office, deputy head of a provincial agricultural economic committee and first secretary of the CPC Committee of Tibet Military Area Command.

According to the decisions, Yang Chuantang becomes secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee, leaving his former post as deputy secretary of the CPC Qinghai Provincial Committee.

Yang Chuantang, born in 1954, is a native of Yucheng, east China's Shandong Province. He studied at the Department of the Chinese at Shandong Normal University from 1981 to 1983.

In his previous career, he had experience as a solider, a worker and secretary of CPC committees at various levels, from workshop to company, prefecture and province, and he once served as deputy secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Party Committee.

Also in compliance with the decisions, Wang Taihua, born in 1945, is no longer secretary of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and will be transferred to another post.