Identifier
Created
Classification
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07GUANGZHOU1242
2007-11-26 08:26:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Consulate Guangzhou
Cable title:  

New Guangdong Vice Governor to be Named

Tags:  PGOV PINR CH 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L GUANGZHOU 001242 

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STATE FOR EAP/CM, INR/B

E.O. 12958: DECL: 2017/11/26
TAGS: PGOV PINR CH
SUBJECT: New Guangdong Vice Governor to be Named

C O N F I D E N T I A L GUANGZHOU 001242

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STATE FOR EAP/CM, INR/B

E.O. 12958: DECL: 2017/11/26
TAGS: PGOV PINR CH
SUBJECT: New Guangdong Vice Governor to be Named


1. (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for
reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


2. (C) Jieyang Municipality Party Secretary Wan Qinliang
will be appointed one of Guangdong's Vice Governors during
the Provincial Congress's January 17, 2008 session,
according to Jieyang Vice Mayor Lin Lijiao. After telling
econoff of Wan's impending promotion, Ms. Lin called Wan's
mobile phone and allowed a Consulate economic assistant to
speak with him for several minutes. During the
conversation, Wan spoke highly of the assistance he had
received from the Consulate when a Jieyang delegation had
applied for visas, and reiterated his interest in
continuing contact with the Consulate.

Biographic Information
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3. (SBU) Wan Qinliang was born in 1964, and is an ethnic
Hakka from northern Guangdong's Meizhou Municipality.
Prior to his appointment as Jieyang's Party Secretary in
2003, he served as the Guangdong Provincial Communist Youth
League Party Secretary (2000-2003),Party Secretary of
Meizhou's poor Jialing County (1997-2000) and in Meizhou
Prefecture's Party Committee (1985-1997),where he focused
on propaganda issues. Local officials describe Wan as
capable, straightforward, and honest. They also note that
he regularly encourages them to be more "liberal" and
"open" in their work.

GOLDBERG