Huang Huahua was re-elected governor of south China's Guangdong
Province and Ou Guangyuan was elected top provincial legislator on
Thursday at a session of the provincial legislature on
Thursday.
Huang, born in 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong, has been the
provincial governor since January 2003.
The provincial governor is head of the provincial government
responsible for the economic, political, personnel, environmental
and foreign affairs issues of the province. He ranks second in the
province behind the provincial Communist Party Secretary.
Ou, born 1948 in Shunde, Guangdong, is currently the deputy
Communist Party chief of Guangdong.
The first province to benefit from the country's opening up and
reform polices in 1978, Guangdong saw its gross domestic product
surpass an estimated three trillion yuan (410 billion U.S. dollars)
in 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2008)
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