Former State-owned Assets Administration Chief Named Party Leader of Liaoning

What’s new: China named an aerospace engineer as the Communist Party secretary of northeastern China’s Liaoning province.

Hao Peng, 62, currently head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), replaces Zhang Guoqing as the provincial party secretary, according to Chen Xi, head of the organization department of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee. Chen announced the appointment Monday at a meeting of provincial officials.