The Hainan Standing Committee adjusts the division of labor, Liu Xingtai and Xiao Jie

The division of labor of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee was adjusted.In July, Liu Xingtai, a new member of the Standing Committee and former vice-governor, was appointed secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. Xiao Jie, the former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and the first municipal party secretary in Sansha, was transferred to the head of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee. Zhang Yunsheng, the former head of the United Front Work Department, was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Party Committee in June., Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee.

According to news from Hainan Political and Legal Network, on August 18, entrusted by the Provincial Party Committee, Wang Ruilian, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, attended the meeting of all cadres of the Provincial Party Committee’s Political and Legal Committee, and announced the decision of the Provincial Party Committee to appoint Liu Xingtai, a member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Committee, as the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee’s Political and Legal Committee.According to news from Haikou Changan Net, on the same day, Wang Ruilian attended the cadre meeting of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee and announced the decision of the Provincial Party Committee to appoint Xiao Jie, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee.

Recently, there have been frequent transfers of senior officials in the provincial political and legal system. In 2018, the secretaries of the political and legal committees of Ningxia and Hainan have been in place, and the secretaries of the political and legal committees of Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and Guizhou have been vacant.Li Jia, deputy secretary of the party committee, concurrently.

Liu Xingtai has worked in Shandong for a long time. He is 55 years old (born in January 1963) and is from Lijin, Shandong.On the eve of the change of the Hainan provincial government in January 2018, Liu Xingtai was promoted across provinces from Rizhao Municipal Party Committee Secretary to Vice Governor of Hainan Province, in charge of human resources and social security, state-owned assets supervision, enterprise reform, food and drug supervision, etc.; only half a year later, he joined the list in JulyMember of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and resigned as Vice Governor, has now clearly succeeded Xiao Jie as Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.The vacancy left by Liu Xingtai as vice-governor of Hainan Province has been taken over by Shen Danyang, the former director and spokesman of the Policy Research Office of the Ministry of Commerce.

It is a relatively rare personnel adjustment in recent years that the secretary of the political and legal committee of the provincial party committee and the minister of the united front work are transferred to each other.In addition to Zhang Yunsheng and Xiao Jie, in April 2018, Xu Guangguo, then member of the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work.

Since 2018, the United Front Work Ministers of eight provinces including Shanghai, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan have been adjusted.

Xiao Jie's official career is concentrated in Hainan. He is 57 years old (born in October 1960) and is a native of Leizhou, Guangdong. He has served twice in the Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture for more than ten years.He has successively served as deputy director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, secretary of the Qionghai Municipal Party Committee, director of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, and director of the Agriculture Department.

Xiao Jie's official career ushered in a turning point in 2012.In June of that year, the State Council approved the establishment of a prefecture-level Sansha City to govern the islands and reefs of the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands, and Nansha Islands and their waters.As a result, Sansha City has become the city with the southernmost geographical location, the largest total area, the smallest land area, and the smallest population in China.A month later, 51-year-old Xiao Jie was elected as the first mayor of Sansha, and at the same time served as the first secretary of the Sansha Municipal Party Committee.

In April 2017, the Hainan Provincial Party Committee was re-elected, and three people were newly elected as members of the Standing Committee. They were: Xiao Jie, then secretary of the Sansha Municipal Party Committee; Yan Chaojun, secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee;Later, Xiao Jie was transferred to the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and Zhang Yunsheng was transferred to the Minister of United Front Work of the Provincial Party Committee.

In June 2018, Zhang Yunsheng became the first member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee to be transferred from Hainan after the change of term.Zhang Yunsheng, who had worked in the court system for more than 20 years, returned to the political and legal system.■