The State Council, China's cabinet, on Saturday appointed Luo Huining as the new liaison office chief in Hong Kong, replacing Wang Zhimin. 

According to Xinhua, Wang was relieved from his post as director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong SAR. 

Luo, a native of Yiwu city, East China's Zhejiang province, in 1954. Previously he held the post of governor of Northwest China's Qinghai province in 2010. He was appointed secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2016.