{"id":58818,"date":"2026-04-29T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/china-appoints-zhang-zhu-agriculture-minister-in-second-shake-up-in-two-years\/29\/04\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:13:53","slug":"china-appoints-zhang-zhu-agriculture-minister-in-second-shake-up-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/china-appoints-zhang-zhu-agriculture-minister-in-second-shake-up-in-two-years\/29\/04\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"China appoints Zhang Zhu agriculture minister in second shake-up in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; China on Thursday named Zhang Zhu agriculture \u200cminister, days after appointing him \u200cto lead the Communist Party&#8217;s operations at \u200bthe ministry, in the second top-level shake-up in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zhang, 58, a veteran regional and agricultural official who \u200cmost recently \u2060served as party chief of Urumqi, the capital of China&#8217;s \u2060northwestern Xinjiang region, replaces Han Jun, 62, who had served as \u200bagriculture minister \u200band party \u200bchief since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Han \u200creplaced Tang Renjian, who was investigated by the party&#8217;s powerful anti-graft watchdog in May 2024, after four years in the role, and later sentenced \u200cto death with \u200ba two-year reprieve for \u200btaking $38 million \u200bin bribes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agriculture ministry \u200chas not specified why \u200bHan has \u200bbeen replaced in his posts, and his resume has been removed \u200bfrom \u200cthe Chinese version of the ministry&#8217;s \u200bwebsite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Joe Cash; Editing \u200bby Muralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/china-appoints-zhang-zhu-agriculture-013813448.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) &ndash; China on Thursday named Zhang Zhu agriculture &zwnj;minister, days after appointing him &zwnj;to lead the Communist Party&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/china-appoints-zhang-zhu-agriculture-minister-in-second-shake-up-in-two-years\/29\/04\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/social\/images\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}