{"id":191442,"date":"2025-09-30T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:07:07","slug":"developing-chinas-largest-provincial-economy-guangdong-has-new-governor-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191442\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | 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 party chief of Shenzhen, has been promoted party chief of Guangdong\u2019s government, a job that effectively makes him the governor-in-waiting of China\u2019s largest provincial economy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meng, 60, was moved to Guangdong in 2022, when he was assigned as party chief of Shenzhen city, according to the province\u2019s official news outlet Nanfang Daily\u2019s social media account.<\/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 in 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, who 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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4d859e09-e710-4cc3-926a-0060fa02ec3a_94b1142a.jpg\" title=\"Wang Weizhong, former governor of Guangdong province, who has been promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia. Photo: ISD\"\/>Wang Weizhong, former governor of Guangdong province, who has been promoted to party chief of Inner Mongolia. Photo: ISD<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meng is filling the vacancy left by the incumbent governor Wang Weizhong, 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 were made a day after the monthly Politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, a usual window for decisions on personnel changes at the provincial level and above.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meng Fanli, the party chief of Shenzhen, has been promoted party chief of Guangdong\u2019s government, a job that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,144,544,451,47793,111539,111537,3,19537,637,13563,452,453,111538],"class_list":["post-191442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-guangdong","tag-headlines","tag-inner-mongolia","tag-meng-fanli","tag-nanfang-daily","tag-news","tag-politburo","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-shenzhen","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wang-weizhong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}