New Leaders elected in Hunan Province

Yang Zhengwu was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Hunan Province at the first session of the 10th Provincial People's Congress of Hunan on Friday.

Yang Zhengwu

The election took place during the first session of the 10th provincial people's congress.

Eight vice-chairmen of the standing committee of provincial people's congress were also elected on the same day. The eight vice-chairmen including Wang Siliang, Hu Xiangdong, Zhou Shichang, Pang Daomu, Guo Junxiu, Tang Zhixiang, Xie Youqing, Yan Yongsheng.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yunchuan was elected governor of Hunan Province, and seven others were elected as vice governors, including Gan Lin, Xu Yunzhao, Yang Taibo, Zhou Baihua, Zheng Maoqing, He Tongxin, Xu Xianping

Zhang Yunchuan

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Zhang Yunchuan, 55, a native of Dongyang city, in east China's Zhejiang province, graduated from the Harbin Military Engineering Institute in northeast China, Zhang served as deputy governor of east China's Jiangxi province and then vice chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Government before he was posted to Hunan in 1999. He served in Hunan as deputy secretary of the provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party, deputy governor and acting governor of Hunan between 1999 and early 2002.