New top legislator elected

Luo Wenzhi (front), newly elected director of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress (MPC), takes an oath with other newly elected leaders of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen MPC. Sun Yuchen

The new leader of Shenzhen’s legislature was elected at the closing meeting of the lawmaking body’s annual session yesterday.

Luo Wenzhi, Party chief of the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration, was elected director of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress.

He Haitao and Peng Haibin were elected second-in-command of the committee.

Born in 1960, Luo is a native of Guangdong’s Foshan City and joined the Party in 1985. He has worked in Shenzhen for more than 20 years.

He had worked in the local finance bureau before being appointed deputy director-general of the city’s planning bureau in 1995.

He was promoted to vice head of Yantian District in 1998.

In 1999, he was appointed vice mayor of Chaozhou City in Guangdong and became its mayor in 2003.

He has been Party chief of the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration since October last year.

Luo’s predecessor, Qiu Hai, resigned from the post due to reaching retirement age.