ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Institutions

It exists to coordinate the formulation, implementation, and oversight of reforms in six policy areas: the economic system and ecological civilization, democracy and the legal system, the cultural system, the social system, the party-building system, and the discipline and inspection system. [...] The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is a ministerial-level constituent department of the State Council formed in March 2018 to succeed the Ministry of Land and Resources, State Oceanic Administration, and State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. [...] Still, the momentum of such movements has ebbed amid the more repressive political environment of the Xi era, and central policymakers have always called the shots about the pace and direction of China’s energy transition. [...] He won promotion to district leadership roles in the city of Xiamen before serving as a top political secretary to the city leadership and as Director of the Xiamen municipal and then the Fujian provincial development and reform commission (DRC). [...] A technocrat with a degree in economic geography from the prestigious Peking University, he has worked for virtually his entire career in the Ministry of Natural Resources and its predecessors, the State Land Administration and the Ministry of Land and Resources, with a focus on land management and property registration.