(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-19 21:56

HEFEI -- Guo Jinlong resigned the post of director of the standing committee of the Anhui Provincial People's Congress on Wednesday.

Guo Jinlong

The resignation was approved at the 35th session of the Standing Committee of the 10th Anhui Provincial People's Congress, the provincial legislative body, held on Wednesday in the provincial capital of Hefei.

Guo was appointed vice and acting mayor of Beijing by the standing committee of the Beijing municipal people's congress on November 30.

Guo will serve as vice mayor and acting mayor before the full mayoralty is decided by voting at the municipal people's congress meeting, to be held early next year.

Guo, of Han nationality, was born in July 1947 in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. He joined the CPC in April 1979.