China's top legislature on Sunday approved the cabinet nomination of Meng Jianzhu, former Party chief of east China's Jiangxi Province, as the country's new minister of Public Security.

Meng, an ethnic Han and born in 1947 in Wuxian County of Jiangsu Province, joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1971.

Meng replaces Zhou Yongkang who was elected Politburo Standing Committee member of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary session of the 17th CPC Central Committee early this week.

(Xinhua News Agency October 28, 2007)