China Province Reveals Head of New Public Complaints Department

What’s new: Inner Mongolia has named its local head of the Social Work Department, the first provincial-level region to reveal a leader of the authority, created last year to better handle public complaints. The national-level organ operates directly under the Communist Party’s Central Committee.

The northern Chinese autonomous region has appointed Wu Zhiqiang, former director and party secretary of the region’s Public Complaints Bureau (PCB), as head of the local party committee’s Social Work Department, according to an article published on the local PCB’s official WeChat account Tuesday. The report referred to Wu using his new title as he conducted an inspection of the local PCB Monday.