Guo Gengmao was elected governor of China's Hebei Province on Monday at a session of the 11th Hebei Provincial People's Congress, the provincial legislature.
Zhang Yunchuan was elected as the northern province's top legislator.
Guo was born in 1950 in Jizhou, Hebei.
Zhang, born in 1946 and a native of the eastern coastal Zhejiang Province, has been the Communist Party chief of Hebei since August.