CHINA-LEADERSHIP: MPS VICE MINISTER WANG XIAOHONG POSITIONED TO TAKE OVER AS MINISTER OF MPS
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Xinhua and the Legal Daily disclosed (November 19) that 64-year old Wang Xiaohong, a long-time associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been named as the Ministry of Public Security’s party chief. The Legal Daily said Wang Xiaohong, 64, currently Vice Minister of Public Security and a member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, will replace Zhao Kezhi as Minister of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The South China Morning Post (November 20) quoted Gu Su, a political scientist at Nanjing University, as saying “Wang is a trustworthy person. While China is carrying out the rectification of the political-legal system, the public security minister is a very important position.” (Comment: Wang Xiaohong has spent over three decades in his native Fujian, serving in various law enforcement roles (1979-2013). When he served as Vice Director, then Director, of the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau (1993-2002); he overlapped with Xi Jinping, who was in Fuzhou from 1990-2002. Xi Jinping brought Wang Xiaohong to Beijing and Wang Xiaohong has served as Vice Minister of Public Security since 2016. He is a member of the 19th Central Committee (2017-2022). Wang Xiaohong's appointment positions him for the top job of Head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC). Chen Yixin, another trusted Xi Jinping loyalist and currently Secretary General of the PLAC has long been considered as the cadre who will replace Guo Shengkun.) |