Reporting the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress
(NPC) that concluded in Beijing on June 24, Xinhua disclosed that it had approved the
appointments of Wang Xiaohong was appointed as Minister of Public Security and Pei Jinjia
was appointed as Minister of Veterans Affairs.
(Comment: 64-year old Wang Xiaohong, a long-time associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping,
was named as Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security on
November 19. 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".)
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