The mainland has a woman provincial governor once again, more than a year after the last one stepped down.
Li Bin, former minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), was elected governor of Anhui by the provincial people's congress on Wednesday.
The last woman governor was Song Xiuyan, the head of Qinghai province from 2005 to 2010.
Li's election had been expected; the 58-year-old was appointed Anhui's deputy Communist Party secretary and acting governor in December. She is one of just two women serving in top provincial-level posts, the other being Fujian party secretary Sun Chunlan , 61.
Li, from Fushun in Liaoning, has spent most of her political career in Jilin province. After starting out as a teacher at the Changchun Institute of Education in 1974, Li became a junior party official in charge of propaganda in Changchun after four years studying political economics at Jilin University.
She first served as a provincial-level official in 1994, when she was named deputy director of Jilin's Planning Commission.
Li was appointed an assistant Jilin governor six years later and then promoted to deputy governor in 2001.
