A former chief of the city committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, has been appointed vice governor and acting governor of southwestern Guizhou Province.

Lin Shusen, 60, was appointed on Wednesday at the 22nd Session of the 10th Standing Committee of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress, the local legislative body.

He was mayor of Guangzhou from March 1997 to February 2003, and secretary of CPC Committee of Guangzhou City from September 2002 to June 2006.

Lin was appointed vice secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee in June this year.

He is also an alternate member of the 16th CPC Central Committee.

The legislature of Guizhou Province also accepted the resignation of the 64-year-old former governor Shi Xiushi on Wednesday.

(Xinhua News Agency July 21, 2006)