The Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress passed yesterday to appoint Zhang as the vice mayor of Shanghai. (Photo credit: video screenshot)
Shanghai’s official scene continues to shake up with the recent appointment of Zhang Wei, deputy general manager of COSCO Shipping Group, as vice mayor of Shanghai, who was accompanied by Xi Jinping and his wife on a rare state visit to Greece in November 2019.
According to land media reports, the twenty-ninth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress on the 26th adopted matters related to personnel appointments and removals, deciding to appoint Zhang as the vice mayor of Shanghai; at the same Time, appointing Ma Chunlei as the secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, who no longer serves as the director of the Development and Reform Commission.
February 20, the Shanghai Municipal Government Party Group held its annual meeting in 2020, Mayor Gong Zheng presided over the meeting and spoke. News images show that Zhang for the scene to participate in the meeting, sitting next to Shanghai Vice Mayor Tang Zhiping.
Public information shows that Zhang for was born in June 1973, Changsha, Hunan Province, Zhang for a long time previously held positions in COSCO Group. He has served as Executive Vice President of COSCO Container Lines Americas Trade Area and Executive Vice President of COSCON Americas Ltd.
He also served as Deputy General Manager and member of the Party Committee of China COSCO Holdings Company Limited, General Manager, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the Board and Secretary of the Party Committee of COSCO Shipping Ports Co. He has led the completion of a series of major overseas terminal acquisitions.
According to the official microblog of COSCO Shipping, on Nov. 11, 2019, CPC President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan visited the COSCO Shipping Piraeus Port project in Greece, accompanied by Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Xi Jinping. At that time, Zhang Wei, deputy general manager of COSCO Shipping Group, also participated in the said activity.
In August last year, Gong Daogan, vice mayor and director of public security of Shanghai, fell; Xu Kunlin, vice mayor of Shanghai, was transferred to Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, as municipal party secretary on September 29 last year; immediately after that, Yu Shaoliang, member of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal Committee and head of the Organization Department, was promoted to deputy secretary of Shanghai on October 13.
According to the official website of Shanghai government, the current mayor of Shanghai is Gong Zheng, the executive vice mayor is Chen Yin, and the vice mayors include Wu Qing, Shu Qing, Peng Shen Lei, Chen Qun, Zong Ming, Tang Zhiping and Chen Tong and other seven people. Zhang is also currently the youngest vice mayor of Shanghai.
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