Premier's cabinet
nominations sail through NPC session (03/17/2003)
The line-up of China's new State Council nominated by the new premier,
Wen Jiabao, sailed through the seventh plenary meeting of the first
session of the 10th National People's Congress Monday afternoon, with
Huang Ju, Wu Yi, Zeng Peiyan and Hui Liangyu taking up the posts as
vice-premiers, Zhou Yongkang, Cao Gangchuan, Tang Jiaxuan, Hua Jianmin
and Chen Zhili as state councilors, and Hua Jianmin as secretary-general
( concurrently).
The others in the line-up are 26 ministers, the governor of the
People's Bank of China and Auditor General.
The following is the list of ministerial members of China's State
Council, approved Monday afternoon at the 7th plenary meeting of
the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress:
1. Li Zhaoxing: Minister of Foreign Affairs;
2. Cao Gangchuan: Minister of National Defense (concurrently);
3. Ma Kai: Minister in charge of the State Development and
Reform Commission;
4. Zhou Ji: Ministry of Education;
5. Xu Guanhua: Minister of Science and Technology;
6. Zhang Yunchuan: Minister in charge of the Commission of
Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense;
7. Li Dek Su (Korean): Minister in charge of the State Ethnic
Affairs Commission;
8. Zhou Yongkang: Minister of Public Security (concurrently);
9. Xu Yongyue: Minister of State Security;
10. Li Zhilun: Minister of Supervision;
11. Li Xueju: Minister of Civil Affairs;
12. Zhang Fusen: Minister of Justice;
13. Jin Renqing: Minister of Finance;
14. Zhang Bolin: Minister of Personnel;
15. Zheng Silin: Minister of Labor and Social Security;
16. Tian Fengshan: Minister of Land and Resources;
17. Wang Guangtao: Minister of Construction;
18. Liu Zhijun: Minister of Railways;
19. Zhang Chunxian: Minister of Communications;
20. Wang Xudong: Minister of Information Industry;
21. Wang Shucheng: Minister of Water Resources;
22. Du Qinglin: Minister of Agriculture;
23. Lu Fuyuan: Minister of Commerce;
24. Sun Jiazheng: Minister of Culture;
25. Zhang Wenkang: Minister of Health;
26. Zhang Weiqing: Minister in charge of the State Commission
for Population and Family Planning;
27. Zhou Xiaochuan: Governor of the People's Bank of China;
28 Li Jinhua: Auditor-General of the National Audit Office.
The meeting also voted for the approval of the composition of the
specialized committees of the Standing Committee of the 10th National
People's Congress other than the Financial and Economic Committee,
which had been approved at the beginning of the NPC annual session.
NPC Presidium Executive Chairman Ismail Amat presided over the
plenary meeting, which was attended by 2,943 NPC deputies.
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