Song Xiuyan

politics - Qinghai governor new Shanghai mayor

"They send us a maoist," rages one of my Shanghai friends. "She is totally unfit to lead Shanghai." According to yet-unconfirmed rumors the current governor of Qinghai Song Xiuyuan is going to be the next mayor of Shanghai.
Song has been making her way though the Chinese bureaucracy mainly in China's provinces and it seen as an effort by the current central leadership to get rid of the more city-oriented officials that emerged under former president Jiang Zemin. "It shows how much the central leadership hates Shanghai," says my friend.