Wu is expected to play a role similar to chief of staff for Li Qiang and will work closely with the new premier on State Council operations.
Former Jiangsu Communist Party chief Wu Zhenglong, a former subordinate of Premier Li Qiang , has been named a state councillor to help steer the new cabinet. Wu was voted in on Sunday by the national legislature on the second last day of its annual session in Beijing. Wu, who will be the cabinet’s secretary general, is among the five state councillors nominated by the new premier, together with Defence Minister Li Shangfu, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong, former Guizhou provincial party chief Shen Yiqin and new Foreign Minister Qin Gang. In a personnel reshuffle that started after the party congress in October, Wu was appointed deputy secretary general of the cabinet’s party institution, according to the official WeChat account of Heilongjiang provincial government.
