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China reshapes economic team, appoints Yi Gang as central bank governor

Appoints US-trained Yi Gang as central bank governor, trade envoy Liu He as vice-premier

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Yi Gang, who was named governor of the People's Bank of China, talks to the media, in Beijing | Photo: Reuters

Agencies Beijing
China elevated a key confidante of President Xi Jinping to one of the top positions in government on Monday as Beijing cracks down on riskier financing and a debt build-up that may pose systemic risks to the world’s second-largest economy.
 
The endorsement of Liu He as a vice-premier by the country’s largely rubber-stamp parliament also comes as the United States presses China to cut its trade surplus by $100 billion. Harvard-educated Liu, 66, was the most prominent envoy to visit Washington recently to prevent the outbreak of a trade war.
 
While most of the personnel changes on the