Shanghai's new party secretary?

Unconfirmed rumors suggest that Liu Yandong (left on the picture) has been appointed as the new Shanghai Party Chief. China Digital Times noted the story in the (dissident) Boxun.

According to the story the current head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party would replace Han Zheng, who has been taken over from Chen Liangyu, who was detained for corruption in September last year.

The story also alledges that Shanghai Vice-mayor Liu Genyun will take over the post of Shanghai Mayor of Han Zheng. That would mean a de facto demotion of Han Zhen, a move that is rather uncommon in the Chinese bureaucracy, where officials only move upward - or end in jail of course.