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(XINHUA) |
Zhang Yi has been appointed the Party chief of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on July 24. He replaced Chen Jianguo.
Born in August 1950, Zhang had served as deputy secretary of the CPC provincial committees in Heilongjiang and Hebei provinces. He became deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, the Party's top discipline watchdog, in October 2007.
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(XINHUA) | Chen has reached the mandatory retirement age for provincial officials of 65. He was elected secretary of the CPC Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee in June 2002 and reelected in June 2007.
Ningxia has a population of 6.25 million in 2009, with Muslims accounting for more than one third. | 
