China has appointed Kang Yi, a former vice mayor of the northern city of Tianjin, to head the National Bureau of Statistics, replacing Ning Jizhe, the bureau said in a website statement seen on Friday.
Kang previously worked as a vice president of Agricultural Bank of China and a senior executive at China Construction Bank, state media said.
The news comes ahead of Saturday’s opening of the annual session of parliament.
Ning has been appointed a deputy director of the economic committee of an advisory body to parliament, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), state media said.
He stays on as vice chairman of top state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, and as a member of the central bank’s monetary policy committee, the agencies’ websites showed.
- Reuters with additional editing by Jim Pollard
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