(CFP)

Yu Guangzhou, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Fujian Provincial Committee, was appointed new chief of the General Administration of Customs (GAC) by the State Council on April 5, 2011. His predecessor Sheng Guangzu was appointed new minister of railways.

Yu, 58, was born in east China's Jiangsu Province and graduated from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. Yu was vice governor of Jiangsu Province from 2000 to 2001 and became vice minister of the State Development Planning Commission, predecessor of today's National Development and Reform Commission, from 2001 to 2003. After being vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce from 2003 to 2008, he was the deputy secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee from 2008 to 2011.