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China's new central bank governor will have to deal with massive debt and an ambitious economic agenda

Written by Hui Feng, Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University

Yi Gang will take over the leadership of China's central bank from Zhou Xiaochuan, who had been in the position since 2002. International Monetary Fund/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The Chinese government has appointed a new head of its central bank. Yi Gang, currently the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, will take over the leadership...

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