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He Lifeng, former Party Secretary of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, was appointed as Deputy Party Secretary of Tianjin and took the place of Gou Lijun to take over Binhai New District, Tianjin.

He Lifeng, 54, graduated from Xiamen University with the doctor degree of economics. After graduation, he spent a long time in working in the officialdom of Fujian. Starting from the grass-root cadre, he took the posts of Xiamen municipal treasure departments director, vice mayor and mayor of Xiamen. In 2001, he was elected as the standing member of Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC.

The experts said that He, with the knowledge of economics, took over Binhai New District, which is helpful to promote the financial reform progress in this district. Meanwhile, his rich experience and social relationship can also help to make Binhai New District become the gather place of the Taiwanese businessmen in North China.

According to overseas medias report, Tianjin has seen several corruption cases in these years. Those corrupted officials all come from Tianjin. Some new leaders of Tianjin, like Party Secretary Zhang Gaoli and mayor Huang Xingguo, are from other places. These main leaders, in addition to He Lifeng, will exert restrictions and supervisions upon those Tianjin-born officials. .