Acting mayor appointed

Source:Global Times Published: 2012-12-26 23:29:07

Vice Mayor Yang Xiong was appointed the city's acting mayor at the 38th session of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee Wednesday.

The committee also accepted Han Zheng's resignation as mayor at the session Wednesday, as he was named secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Shanghai Municipal Committee by the CPC Central Committee on November 20.

Han has been working in the city for 37 years and has been Shanghai's mayor since 2003. Yang, 59, has been vice mayor since 2003.

Global Times

 



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