Liu Weiping was re-elected governor of northwest China's Gansu Province at the first session of the 12th provincial people's congress on Tuesday, the local legislature announced.

Born in May 1953, Liu is a native of Fujin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1974.

Liu was first elected governor of Gansu in January 2011.

(Xinhua News Agency January 29, 2013)