Guo Shuqing Is Anointed PBOC Party Secretary, Deputy Governor
Tang Shihua
DATE:  Mar 27 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Guo Shuqing Is Anointed PBOC Party Secretary, Deputy Governor Guo Shuqing Is Anointed PBOC Party Secretary, Deputy Governor

(Yicai Global) March 27 -- Guo Shuqing, chairman and party secretary of China's new banking and insurance regulator, has also been named the party secretary and deputy governor ofthe People's Bank of China, the central bank said.

PBOC held a meeting of senior officials yesterday at which it was announced that Beijinger Yi Gang will serve as PBOC's governor and deputy party secretary, while the Inner Mongolia native Guo will serve as party secretary and deputy governor. The National People's Congress, China's legislature, endorsed Yi as governor on March 19.

Under Chinese law, PBOC's governor leads the bank's work and assumes full responsibility, while the deputy governor assists. Yi will oversee the monetary authority's overall business, while Guo will oversee work within the party committee. 

One person previously performed the functions of both party secretary and governor, as did Zhou Xiaochuan, who retired last week after 15 years. This new bifurcation of offices seeks to facilitate ongoing reform of the financial regulatory system, an analyst noted.

The government last week appointed 61-year-old Guo, former head of China's banking watchdog, as the first chairman to head up the country's new top regulator -- the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission -- formed from the merger of separate oversight bodies for the banking and insurance sectors.

As part of the recent changes to the regulatory framework, the People's Bank of China will also take over drafting key laws and regulations and create a prudent supervisory system, which was previously the responsibility of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, now combined into the Guo's CBIRC.

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