Shuffle, shuffle

The Minister of State Security for the Mainland, after being named deputy director of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee’s panel on Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs, and reaching retirement age, may step down from his security role, according to the South China Morning Post.
Geng Huichang, aged 65, and after holding the position as the head of the state security ministry for nearly a decade, had his new appointment to the panel announced at the same time as two other senior official appointments. Both of the senior officials had recently retired from their former roles before also being elected to the CPPCC – one under the education, science, culture and health committee and another under the foreign affairs committee.
The CPPCC is China’s top political advisory body, notes the publication.
Expectations, notes the publication, are that the appointment, and presumed stepping-down, will lead the way for the Ministry of State Security’s communist part committee head, Chen Wengqing, to eventually take up Geng’s former role.
Geng is originally from Hebei Province, having previously served as deputy director of the China International Cultural Exchange Centre and vice-minister of state security before his 2007 appointment to the security ministry.