Yin Li elected governor of Sichuan

Yin Li was elected governor of southwest China's Sichuan Province at a session of the provincial legislature on Friday.

Yin, 54, a native of Linyi, Shandong Province, has held the vice governor and acting governorship of Sichuan after the resignation of former governor Wei Hong was accepted by the standing committee of the provincial legislature a week ago.

Wei was suspected of "severe disciplinary violations," said Wu Yuliang, deputy chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, earlier this month.

Yin was vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission before being appointed deputy secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee in March 2015.

Source: XINHUA