Banking veteran Li Yun fills senior Shenzhen posts in countdown to Apec

A banking veteran has been appointed the new deputy Communist Party secretary and acting mayor of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, just months before the city is scheduled to host a series of Apec meetings. The positions have been filled by Li Yun, who spent more than two decades working in financial institutions and has been the vice-governor of Guangdong province since March last year. As Shenzhen’s new deputy party secretary and acting mayor, Li takes over from Qin Weizhong,…