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Viewing cable 07BEIJING3058, New Ministers of Water and Land Resources Named

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BEIJING3058 2007-05-08 09:14 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Beijing 
VZCZCXRO8517
RR RUEHHM RUEHLN RUEHMA RUEHPB RUEHPOD
DE RUEHBJ #3058 1280914
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 080914Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY BEIJING
TO UEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7600
INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMNT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE
RUCPDOC/SDOC WASHDC
RUEHGH/AMCONSUL SHANGHAI 7571
RUEHSH/AMCONSUL SHENYANG 7940
RUEHCN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU 8264
RUEHGZ/AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU 2870
RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG 9310
RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI 6442
 
UNCLAS BEIJING 003058 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR OES/ETC - A. COVINGTON 
STATE ALSO FOR OES/EGC/VALDEZ AND EAP/CM 
DOE FOR INTERNATIONAL/PUMPHREY 
USDOC FOR NOAA/OFFICE OF GLOBAL PROGRAMS 
EPA FOR INTERNATIONAL - NGUYEN AND CHENG 
STATE PASS TO CEQ CONNAUGHTON AND NSC PEEL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SENV PREL ENRG KSCA CH
SUBJECT: New Ministers of Water and Land Resources Named 
 
 
1. (U) China announced the selection of Xu Shaoshi as the new 
Minister of Land and Resources and Chen Lei as Minister of Water 
Resources following confirmation by the Standing Committee of the 
National People's Congress April 27. Minister Xu was previously 
Deputy Secretary General of the State Council, where he was a 
coordinator of the Strategic Economic Dialogue team on the Chinese 
side.  He graduated from the Environment and Resources Department of 
Jilin University. 
 
2. (U) Minister Chen returns to Beijing following two years as 
Executive Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the 
kind of brief provincial posting that would indicate that Chen was 
being groomed for future promotion.  He is a hydraulic engineer with 
over 20 years of government experience, including ten at the 
Ministry of Water Resources.  Minister Chen was previously Vice 
Minister of Water Resources from 2001 to 2005. 
 
Comment 
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3. (SBU) Our contacts at MWR as well as on the NGO side said they do 
not believe Minister Chen, who has worked his way up MWR's ladder, 
will take a different track with the United States than that taken 
by his predecessor, former Minister Wang Shucheng, who had good 
relations with his U.S. government counterparts at the Environmental 
Protection Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
4. (SBU) We have little direct experience with Minister Xu; as SED 
coordinator, he primarily worked behind the scenes. 
 
RANDT