Former Provincial Party Chief Takes Over as Beijing’s New Boss

What’s new: The former Communist Party chief of Fujian province, Yin Li, has replaced Cai Qi as the new party chief of Beijing, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

Yin was selected for the Politburo after the 20th National Party Congress in October, when Cai was elevated to become one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s top decision-making body.

The background: Yin, 60, became party secretary of the eastern Chinese province at the end of 2020 after serving as a deputy party chief of Southwest China’s Sichuan province for more than five years.