From People’s Daily:
China’s top legislature named 43-year-old Sun Zhengcai(Â≠ôÊîøÊâçÔºâ, who has a PhD in agriculture, as the new agriculture minister(MOA) on Friday, making him the country’s youngest ministerial-level official.
With a PhD in the China Agricultural University, Sun worked in the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science for four years.
Sun also used to be head of Shunyi district in Beijing and secretary-general of the Beijing municipal committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during which he promoted the development of agriculture and the rural economy.
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(Photo of Sun Zhengcai)
