The 14th session of the 10th Jilin Provincial People's Congress
passed a resolution Saturday, accepting the resignation of Hong Hu
from the post of provincial governor and appointing Wang Min as
deputy governor and acting governor.
Wang, a native of Anhui
Province born in March 1950, just became deputy secretary of
Jilin Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
earlier this October. He was made deputy governor of Jiangsu
Province, east China, in December 1996.With a doctorate in
machinery manufacturing, Wang served as farmer, worker, college
teacher and deputy president of Nanjing Aeronautics and
Astronautics University before July 1994.
Hong Hu made the headlines earlier for publishing a letter to
openly apologize for a shop fire that killed 51 people in February
this year. It was the first public apology made by such a
high-ranking official in China in recent years for a fatal
accident.
(Xinhua News Agency October 30, 2004)