More than 90 officials have taken up new high-level government posts in the last two months, following annual legislative meetings across China's 31 provincial regions and municipalities.
The moves, some promotions, some inter-regional transfers, come ahead of the two sessions, China's annual legislative meetings, in March.
The number of high-level appointments has increased recently. In 2014, 48 officials at provincial level were appointed during the annual local two sessions and the number increased to 69 in 2015, in line with the recent trend after a number of top officials were removed from their posts during the ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
Four new provincial governors have been appointed in Fujian, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces. The acting mayors of Beijing and Chongqing have now had their positions formally confirmed.
Another 36 vice chairmen of the people's congress standing committees in 21 provinces and regions were also replaced.
Zhao Kezhi was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress in January, becoming the first to assume his post in the provincial two sessions.
Zhao was appointed the provincial Party chief in Hebei in July 2015, one week after former secretary Zhou Benshun was removed for offenses that included graft, speaking against the Party line and hindering an investigation.
Cai Qi was elected Beijing mayor Monday at the fifth session of the 14th Beijing Municipal People's Congress. Cai, 61, was appointed vice mayor and acting mayor of Beijing in late October 2016 after former mayor Wang Anshun was posted to the Development Research Center of the State Council as Party Secretary.
Five Party secretaries of provincial capitals are holding concurrent posts as vice secretaries of provincial Party committees. All have served in other provinces before and three have worked in the central government, news site people.com.cn reported Thursday.
Moving officials between different places could help reduce corruption by preventing them from building an interpersonal relationship network in one place, as well as allowing them to bring their successful experience to another place, Wang Jingbo, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, was quoted as saying by the Legal Daily on Tuesday.
