Speculation swirls over China's next central bank chief

Front-runner indicates potentially bigger role for President Xi's right-hand man

20170921_mag_PE Jiang Chaoliang PBOC race

Jiang Chaoliang, seen here in 2012, is considered the leading candidate for governor of China's central bank.

ISSAKU HARADA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING With China's central bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan set to step down after 14 years on the job, a likely successor has emerged in the person of Jiang Chaoliang, party secretary of Hubei Province.

Whether Jiang ascends to the post will say a great deal about what is happening at the highest ranks of China's power structure, and about the fate of its second-most powerful figure, anti-corruption czar Wang Qishan, the right-hand man to President Xi Jinping.

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