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China Names Kang Yi as New Chief of Statistics Bureau

News of the appointments come ahead of Saturday’s opening of the annual session of parliament.


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FBI director Chris Wray said the Chinese government sees cyberattacks as the pathway to “cheat and steal on a massive scale”. File photo: Reuters.

 

China has appointed Kang Yi, a former vice mayor of the northern city of Tianjin, to head the National Bureau of Statistics, replacing Ning Jizhe, the bureau said in a website statement seen on Friday.

Kang previously worked as a vice president of Agricultural Bank of China and a senior executive at China Construction Bank, state media said.

The news comes ahead of Saturday’s opening of the annual session of parliament.

Ning has been appointed a deputy director of the economic committee of an advisory body to parliament, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), state media said.

He stays on as vice chairman of top state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, and as a member of the central bank’s monetary policy committee, the agencies’ websites showed.

 

  • Reuters with additional editing by Jim Pollard

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.