Naming of Guo Shengkun as security minister divides opinion
Guo Shengkun became nation's top cop this week, but analysts are split on whether he's right for job due to his lack of legal experience
New public security minister Guo Shengkun once described himself as a politician with a background in business.
Analysts say it remains to be seen whether that background is enough to make up for his lack of experience in the security system.
The National People's Congress Standing Committee appointed Guo public security minister yesterday, replacing Meng Jianzhu, a member of the Communist Party's 25-strong Politburo who now heads the party's Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
Guo chaired a security teleconference on Monday about a crackdown on drink-driving and drug-driving as the party chief of the Ministry of Public Security.
The 58-year-old former Guangxi party chief spent more than two decades in state-owned enterprises and the non-ferrous metal industry before shifting to politics in 2004.
In a 2010 interview with the party magazine Insight China, Guo said his roles in running an enterprise and governing an autonomous region were comparable because both required "maximisation of interests" - only the clients were different.