Chinese top legislature appoints new justice minister

Wu Aiying replaced Zhang Fusen as the Chinese justice minister, China's top legislature decided on Friday.

Wu, former vice minister of justice, will be the only female minister in the Chinese cabinet after Vice Premier Wu Yi left her post of health minister this April.

Born in east China's Shandong Province in December 1951, Wu studied as postgraduate the political and law sciences in the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Wu joined the CPC in October 1970. She was appointed chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shandong Provincial Committee and elected deputy secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee in 2002.

Wu began to assume the post of vice minister of justice in November 2003.

"She did a lot to optimize the economic and social development environment when she held the Shandong provincial leadership," say materials about her provided by the the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

"She helped establish judicial offices in the central and western region and solved many major cases concerning foreign affairs when she was at the post of vice minister of justice," the materials read, "she is the appropriate person for the minister of justice."

Zhang Fusen was relieved of official duty because he has reached the retirement age.

Source: Xinhua