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PEOPLE'S CONGRESS PLENUM BY A TOTAL OF 644 VOTES. THE MEDIA
REPORTED THAT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THE ELECTION, ZHU VOWED TO PROMOTE A CLEAN GOVERNMENT AND MAINTAIN THE REFORM MOMENTUM.
HE SAID THERE SHOULD BE CLOSER CO-OPERATION BETWEEN GUANGDONG AND HONG KONG IN AREAS SUCH AS THE ECONOMY, FINANCE, SKILLS AND LAW AND ORDER. REFERRING TO THE SINO-US TRADE DISPUTES, ZHU SAID THEY WOULD TRY TO DIVERSIFY THEIR INTERNATIONAL MARKET. HE ALSO
DISCLOSED THAT GUANGZHOU WOULD SOON FOLLOW SHENZHEN IN ALLOWING
FOREIGN BANKS TO OPEN BRANCH OFFICES.
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THE ONLY OTHER APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE CONGRESS WERE YU FEI (A FORMER GUANGDONG VICE-GOVERNOR) AND ZHANG HANQING (FORMER PARTY DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR GUANGZHOU) AS VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE
CONGRESS, WITH ZHANG ALSO BECOMING SECRETARY-GENERAL OF ITS STANDING COMMITTEE AND 6 NEW MEMBERS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE.
TWO OF THE PROVINCE'S VICE-GOVERNORS HAD ALREADY BEEN CHANGED LAST YEAR, IT IS NOTEWORTHY THAT LIKE ZHU AND THE VICE-GOVERNOR APPOINTED THEN (LU RUIHUA AND LI LANFANG), BOTH NEW VICE-CHAIRMAN
ARE TRANSFERRED FROM OTHER POSTS WITHIN GUANGDONG. ONLY TWO NEW
CONGRESS VICE-CHAIRMEN WERE APPOINTED ALTHOUGH THREE HAVE
RESIGNED (ZENG DINGSHI, XUE YAN AND LUO KENING, ANOTHER FORMER HONG KONG NCNA OFFICIAL.
SIGNED: ANNETTE LEE, APA(G)
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