Lineup aims to project image of change, with eyes on fresh faces and 'super ministers' Premier Wen Jiabao is to form a new cabinet today that will absorb fresh blood, spring a few surprises and intend to project an image of change, according to sources close to the decision. Within Mr Wen's big pool of talent, all eyes will be on several new faces and five ministers to head the new 'super ministries'. One surprise is Zhang Ping, the little known deputy replacing his boss, Ma Kai, to head the restructured planning bureau - the National Development and Reform Commission. Another unpredicted placing is Cai Wu, one of the country's top censors, as the new cultural tsar. The appointment of Mr Cai - previously director of the Information Office under the State Council - as the minister of culture is believed to be a last-minute arrangement as vice-cultural minister Yu Youjun was dropped from the list during the NPC session reportedly because of a corruption scandal involving his younger brother. Mr Wen, who embarked on his second and last five-year term as premier yesterday, is also going to appoint one of his top mandarins to an unfamiliar cabinet position. Li Yizhong, who carved out an image of ultra-toughness as work safety chief in charge of the country's thousands of coal mines, will head the Ministry of Industry and Information - probably the most challenging of the new mega-ministries. Vice-minister of the just abolished construction ministry, Jiang Weixin , 59, will take over the new super Ministry of Housing and Urban-Township Construction. Mr Wen will rely on the technocrat, who had a strong career record in the property industry, to deliver his affordable-housing plan for lowincome earners. The other three 'super ministers' resulting from the cabinet shake-up, which shuffled 15 ministerial agencies and abolished four ministries, are all incumbent heads of the involved ministries. Chen Zhu is to continue to rule the Ministry of Health, which has absorbed the food and drug agency. Zhou Shengxian will head the new Ministry of Environmental Protection and Li Shenglin, former minister of communications, will oversee the new Ministry of Transport, which combines all modes of transport except railways. Li Jinhua - as the top anti-graft official and probably the most recognisable face from Mr Wen's first five-year term - will be replaced by Liu Jiayi, a lesser known cadre. The rest of Mr Wen's new cabinet lineup is as expected because most key personnel arrangements had been well settled at the party's five-yearly congress in October. The new team of vice-premiers and state councillors includes a shrewd mixture of economic elite, a skilful diplomat, a military hardliner and blue-blood politicians. Probably the most striking promotion in the cabinet is Li Keqiang , the youngest member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, taking over as executive vice-premier with direct oversight of macroeconomics.