{"id":170135,"date":"2025-09-30T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/170135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:08:10","slug":"chinas-largest-provincial-economy-guangdong-has-new-governor-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/170135\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s largest provincial economy, Guangdong, has new governor-in-waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meng Fanli, the Communist Party chief of Shenzhen, has been promoted to party chief of Guangdong\u2019s government, a job that effectively makes him the governor-in-waiting of China\u2019s biggest provincial economy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The title of party chief of the provincial government doubles with the position of governor, and Meng\u2019s appointment to that role is expected to be confirmed by the provincial legislature soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wang Weizhong, former governor of Guangdong province, has been promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia. Photo: ISD\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4d859e09-e710-4cc3-926a-0060fa02ec3a_94b1142a.jpg\" title=\"Wang Weizhong, former governor of Guangdong province, has been promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia. Photo: ISD\"\/>Wang Weizhong, former governor of Guangdong province, has been promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia. Photo: ISDMeng is filling the vacancy left by governor <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/wang-weizhong?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wang Weizhong<\/a>, who was promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang, 63, was appointed to the Guangdong governorship in 2021, after four years as the party chief of Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tuesday\u2019s announcements came a day after President Xi Jinping chaired the monthly Politburo meeting, a gathering that is often a window on personnel changes at the provincial level and above.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shenzhen\u2019s economy faced both internal and external challenges at the start of Meng\u2019s term, with the city\u2019s economic growth slowing to 3.3 per cent in 2022, hit by the triple whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic, a property downturn and the painful adjustments of the China-US trade war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite the slower growth, Shenzhen \u2013 which has nurtured the likes of Huawei Technologies, Tencent and BYD \u2013 unseated Shanghai as China\u2019s biggest manufacturing city that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meng Fanli, the Communist Party chief of Shenzhen, has been promoted to party chief of Guangdong\u2019s government, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,891,1294,10427,27962,76656,76654,5802,5799,8711,56,54,55,76655],"class_list":{"0":"post-170135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-guangdong","12":"tag-inner-mongolia","13":"tag-meng-fanli","14":"tag-nanfang-daily","15":"tag-politburo","16":"tag-president-xi-jinping","17":"tag-shenzhen","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-wang-weizhong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}