The ministry, which oversees a wide spectrum of areas from China’s moonshot effort in chipmaking to overcapacity issues in electric vehicles, said in a statement Friday that Li Lecheng now occupied that role, without giving a reason for the change. Li, 60, has been working as Liaoning provincial governor since 2022.
China has abruptly replaced the nation’s tech czar who oversees Beijing’s efforts to build a world-class, cutting-edge chip industry and rival the US as a high-tech superpower.
Jin Zhuanglong, a 60-year-old aerospace expert, is no longer listed as party secretary of the Ministry of Industries and Information Technology, after he disappeared from public view last December fueling speculation about his position.
