04 Dec 2020
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The reshuffle of provincial Party secretaries continues.
Some context: Over the past two weeks, the Party secretaries of Jilin, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Fujian all got switched out.
The latest: On Tuesday, it was announced that Shen Xiaoming would take over as Party secretary of ...
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