Chen Min'er appointed Chongqing Party chief

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Chen Min'er has been appointed secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to a decision by the CPC Central Committee.

Chen will no longer serve as the CPC chief of southwest China's Guizhou Province, a post he had held since July 2015.

Replacing Chen, Sun Zhigang was named secretary of Guizhou Provincial Committee of the CPC.

Sun Zhigang attends a panel discussion of the Guizhou delegation during the fourth session of China's 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2016. /Xinhua Photo

Chen was elected Guizhou governor at a session of the local legislature in January 2013.

He was appointed as the vice governor in December 2012, and he became deputy chief of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the CPC in January 2012.

Previously he was a member of the Standing Committee as well as the publicity department of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC, and vice governor of Zhejiang Province before 2012.

Chen was born in the city of Zhuji, Zhejiang Province in September 1960.

Chen taking over from Sun Zhengcai

Chen will take over the Chongqing role from Sun Zhengcai, who will no longer hold the position.

Sun, born in September 1963, has been Party chief of Chongqing since November 2012.

Sun is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri (R) shakes hands with Sun Zhengcai (L), a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and head of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, during their meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 11, 2016. /Xinhua Photo

As a senior official of the CPC, Sun led a delegation for a regional visit last year that took them to Cuba, Colombia and Argentina.

During his visit in April 2016, Sun met Cuban leader Raul Castro, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Argentina's President Mauricio Macri, and conveyed sincere greetings from President Xi Jinping to the three leaders.