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worked under him in the late 1940s and early 1950s. We have
heard that there was acrimonious debate over the re-appointment
of Zhang Aiping as State Councillor and Minister of National
Defence, no doubt due to continuing disagreement over the policy
of self-reliance in defence procurement which he was primarily
responsible for formulating earlier this year, and which lay
behind the cancellation of the 051 project.
35. Eight of the 45 Ministers are new. Five of these have
moved up from the position of Vice Minister in their own
ministries.
They are mostly able middle aged technocrats.
The new Minister of Public Security, Liu Fuzhi, was previously
Minister of Justice, but he had an uninterrupted history from
1949-1966 in the Ministry of Public Security which he has now
returned to. The Auditor General, Yu Lingtao, was formerly
Governor of Shaanxi province and most of his previous career
has been spent in the provinces. His post is newly created.
The only other new Ministry, that of State Security, is to be
headed by Ling Yun, previously a Vice Minister of Public Security.
36. The membership of the State Central Military Commission
closely resembles that of the Party, the Chairman and Vice
Chairmen being the same. There had been speculation before
the NPC that Deng Xiaoping might not head the State body as
well as the Party, but in the event he decided to do so,
underlining the fact that problems of leftism in the People's
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