Luo Zhijun was elected governor of east China's Jiangsu Province here on Thursday at a legislative session.

He was elected to the post at the first session of the 11th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, four weeks after he was appointed vice and acting governor.

Luo, born in November 1951 and a native of Lingyuan, northeast China's Liaoning Province, assumed the post of secretary of the Nanjing municipal committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 2003.

He worked in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in the early 1990s and began to work in Nanjing in 1995.

At the same session, Liang Baohua, the former Jiangsu governor, was elected chairman of the standing committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, or the province's top lawmaker.

Liang, born in 1945, resigned from the post of governor at the beginning of this month.

(Xinhua News Agency January 31, 2008)