CHINA-CCP: LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS
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The official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on June 7
announced that the State Council had appointed:
i) Cui Maohu as Director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs; ii) Fu Hua as President of Xinhua News Agency;
iii) Lv Yansong as Editor-in-Chief of Xinhua News Agency; and
iv) Wang Shuxin as President of Chongqing University (Deputy Minister level).
(Comment: Fu Hua is regarded as a thoroughly loyal Party apparatchik who has risen rapidly
through the ranks. Fu Hua is a long-time veteran of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media
who served four years (2010-2014) as Deputy Propaganda Chief for the city of Beijing, and
nearly two years (2018-2020) as the top propaganda official in Guangdong province. Fu Hua
has given priority to Xi Jinping’s notion of “telling China’s story well” (讲好中国故事), and
the need to find new ways for the CCP to control the heights of public opinion domestically
and globally. In remarks in November last year on the telling of China’s story, Fu Hua made
reference to Xi Jinping’s first major speech on propaganda and ideology on August 19, 2014,
months after Fu joined Beijing Daily – and to the need for propaganda officials to “be bolder
in raising the banner and showing their swords” (大胆地举旗亮剑).
Born in 1965, Cui Maohu was Deputy Director of UFWD before being promoted as Director of
the State Administration for Religious Affairs.)
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