Shanghai Vice Mayor Promoted to Mayor
<i> Reuters</i>
BEIJING —
China has named a 52-year-old former electrical engineer as the mayor of Shanghai, China’s biggest city, the New China News Agency reported.
Huang Ju, who had been vice mayor and deputy head of the municipal Communist Party, replaces the charismatic Zhu Rongji. Zhu, dubbed “China’s Gorbachev” because of his reformist policies, became a vice premier last month.
Zhu, who was also the Communist Party chief in Shanghai, was replaced in that post by another engineer, Wu Bangguo.
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