Qin Guangrong was re-elected governor of southwest China's Yunnan
Province and Bai Enpei top provincial legislator at a session of
the provincial legislature on Thursday.
Qin, born in 1950 in central Hunan Province, has been the
provincial governor since January 2007.
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.
Bai, born 1946 in northwestern Shaanxi Province, is also the
Communist Party chief of Yunnan.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2008)
