Governor of Hainan appointed

Liu Cigui was former head of the State Oceanic Administration and province's deputy Party chief

Liu Cigui was appointed governor of China's southernmost island province of Hainan on Friday, marking the latest personnel change of ministerial-level government officials.

The appointment was announced at a session of the Hainan provincial legislature, which ended on Friday.

Liu, 59, is a native of Quanzhou, Fujian province.

Liu was director of the State Oceanic Administration between January 2013 and December of last year before being appointed deputy Party chief of Hainan province.

Jiang Dingzhi, former governor of Hainan province, has been transferred to Jiangsu province to serve as the deputy head of the provincial legislature.

Before Liu, more than 60 ministerial-level officials in 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions were reassigned to new government posts.

A number of the personnel changes are filling gaps left by predecessors who are under investigation for corruption.

Last year, China intensified its anti-corruption efforts as more senior officials, including ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang and Ling Jihua, former minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, were investigated.

The campaign caused the removal of a large number of deputy heads of provincial legislatures and the provinces' top political advisory bodies.

Ke Zunping, deputy Party chief of Sichuan province, has been appointed as chairman of the Sichuan Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, a post that remained unoccupied for more than a year.

Li Chongxi, who held the post before Ke, was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft agency, in December 2013.

Zhu Mingguo, chairman of the Guangdong provincial committee of the CPPCC, was investigated for serious violations of Party discipline in November.

On Feb 11, Wang Rong, former Party chief of Shenzhen, Guandong province, was elected chairman of the Guangdong provincial committee of the CPPCC. The replacement meant all 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have filled the post of chairman of the provincial CPPCC committees.