Yi Gang, 65, re-elected as the head of the Bank of China this year.people.
China's 14th First Meeting of the National People's Congress The fifth plenary meeting today (March 12)The voting passed candidates for various ministers, committees of various committees, chairmen of committees, presidents of the committee, president of the Chinese State Council, and candidates.
Yi Gang received 2944 votes in favor, 1 vote opposition, 1 abstain, and re -elected as the governor of the central bank.
Five years ago, Yi Gang, then Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of China, was elected as the central bank governor with 2965 agreed, two -vote opposition, and two votes abstained.
Yi Gang is neither a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China nor the representative of the 14th National People's Congress. The outside world thought he would step down as the governor of the central bank.
Yi Gang is a "returnee" official. He was sent to the United States to study a PhD in economics in the 1980s, and taught in the United States for eight years.
After returning to China in 1994, Yi Gang and well -known economist Lin Yifu formed the China Economic Research Center of Peking University and taught at Peking University.
He joined the central bank three years later, and served as deputy governor at the end of 2007 until 2018. During the period, he also served as the director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.He was righteous at the two sessions in 2018 and replaced Zhou Xiaochuan as the president of the central bank.(Reporting Huang Xiaofang, a special agent in Beijing)
