SHANGHAI,
China (AP) - Shanghai’s mayor won a second five-year
term Wednesday, cementing his political survival after a
wide-ranging corruption scandal brought down the city’s
Communist Party boss.Han Zheng, 57, was reappointed at the
annual meeting of the municipal legislature, the official Xinhua
News Agency said.
Xinhua gave no details. Han’s new term will run through
Shanghai’s staging of the 2010 World Expo, an opportunity for
international exposure that the city hopes will rival Beijing’s
hosting of this year’s Summer Olympic Games.
Han, first appointed mayor in 2003, pledged last week to
repair the city’s "negative image," a reference to the scandal
that toppled Chen Liangyu, the city’s most powerful official, in
September 2006, as well as other top city officials and
businessmen.
