(Beijing Comprehensive News) officially announced that former Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng's eldest son and Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng replaced Yang Chuantang as the party secretary of the Ministry of Transport.
According to the official website of the Ministry of Transport of China, the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China attended the meeting of the Ministry of Communications on Wednesday (May 10) to make the above announcement.
63 -year -old Li Xiaopeng is from Chengdu, Sichuan. He has served as the general manager of China Huaneng Group Corporation in the power industry for a long time.He has abandoned business in politics since 2008, and has been commissioned to be vice governor, executive deputy governor, agent governor, and governor of Shanxi Province. In 2016, he was transferred to the Minister of Transport and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group.He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese CPPCC in March 2023.
The 69 -year -old Yang Chuantang has served as the governor of Qinghai, the secretary of the party committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the party secretary of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the director of the Council of the National Supply and Marketing Cooperative Council. From 2012 to 2016, he was the Minister of Communications and the secretary of the party group.After Li Xiaopeng was the Minister of Transport in 2016, Yang Chuantang continued to serve as the party secretary of the ministry.Caixin.com reported that the Ministry of Communications of China was one of the few ministries that implemented the "dual head system" before.
China has adjusted four senior officials of the State Council this year. In addition to the Ministry of Communications, there are also the Ministry of National Defense, Development and Reform Commission and the Supreme Court.
