Hebei Provincial Official Appointed to Communist Party’s Top Economic Body

What’s new: Yan Pengcheng, secretary-general of the Hebei provincial Communist Party Committee, has been appointed deputy director at the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, the top body under the CPC Central Committee in charge of leading and supervising national economic work.

The appointment was made public in a statement released Tuesday by the Central Committee’s International Liaison Department, which named Yan in his new role while announcing his attendance at a symposium hosting visiting members of the Brazilian Workers’ Party in Beijing.