China names new regulators in leadership renewal: report
The changes mark the highest-profile personnel swaps to be made as a part of a broad leadership renewal that will run through the next 17 months at a time when the global economy is grappling with a debt crisis and looking to China for financial support.
China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are due to retire their Communist Party posts at the 18th Congress next fall, and their presidency and premiership positions at a parliament session in March 2013.
The announcement on Saturday marks a handing over of power to a younger generation and confirms a Reuters report citing three independent sources that a shake-up would be announced as early as this week.
Shang Fulin, currently the securities regulator, was named chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), replacing Liu Mingkang.
Ex-China Construction Bank <601939.SS> <0939.HK> chairman Guo Shuqing will take up the post of chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Late on Friday, the bank said Guo resigned due to the need to attend to state financial work.
Ex-Agricultural Bank of China <601288.SS> <1288.HK> chairman Xiang Junbo will take up the post of chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). AgBank also said in a short statement on Friday that Xiang resigned "due to the need of state financial work."
(Reporting by Jacqueline Wong; Editing by Ron Askew)