Two of Xi Jinping's associates promoted to key public security ministry posts
Shake-up in key positions sees Fu Zhenghua move from fifth to third in command while Deng Weiping becomes anti-graft chief
Two associates of President Xi Jinping have been promoted to key posts in the Ministry of Public Security.
Fu Zhenghua, a native of Hebei who was appointed director of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau in 2010, has been promoted from fifth to third-in-command at the ministry.
Deng Weiping, who served under Xi in Fujian, was promoted to anti-graft chief of the public security bureau, the People's Daily website reported.
Just days ago, Wang Xiaohong, an associate of Xi, who served alongside Deng in Fujian, was promoted to Beijing police chief after Fu relinquished the post.
Fu, 60, made a name for himself after only 74 days as Beijing's police chief when he closed Heaven on Earth, a luxury nightclub in Beijing suspected of providing sexual services.
Before Fu relinquished this post, he was the first person in the Communist party's history to hold the concurrent posts of head of Beijing's police, the Standing Committee member of the party's Beijing municipal committee and deputy minister of public security.
Deng, 59, was also present during Xi's entire 17 years in Fujian. He was deputy secretary of the Fuzhou Gulou District party committee when Xi was the party secretary for Fuzhou .