Zhao Hongzhu was on Saturday elected secretary of the Zhejiang
Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Zhao, born in July 1947 and a native of Ningcheng, north China's
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was elected to the post at the
first plenary session of the 12th Zhejiang Provincial Committee of
CPC held in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, on
Saturday.
Zhao had been appointed to the post by the CPC Central Committee
in a decision made in late March, to replace Xi Jinping, who was
appointed secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee
earlier.
Yu Zhengsheng was elected as the secretary of
Hubei Provincial CPC Committee.
The election was held at the first plenary session of the Ninth
Hubei Provincial CPC Committee which was held in Wuhan, capital of
Hubei Province, central China, on Saturday.
(Xinhua News Agency June 18, 2007)
