He Lifeng led economic, trade, and technical bureaucrats at the JPMorgan Chase headquarters building in New York to hold round-the-clock talks with US officials for days, negotiating the deadline for rare earth deliveries and terms for soybean procurement quotas.
Xinhua News Agency reported that Hu Changsheng has been appointed Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Wu Xiaojun has been transferred to serve as Party Secretary of Gansu Province, and Luo Dongchuan has taken over as Party Secretary of Qinghai Province. Within two days, top leaders of six provinces have been intensively appointed to key positions, indicating that professional technocrats who are not absolute confidants of Xi Jinping are taking on major responsibilities in crucial local roles.