Ma Xiaowei was nominated as the director of National Health Commission

China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), endorsed on Monday Premier Li Keqiang's nominations of ministers, heads of commissions, governor of the central bank and auditor-general.

Among the 26 ministerial-level posts, seven are leading the new ministries, which were created as part of an institutional restructuring plan proposed by the State Council, the cabinet, to the ongoing first session of the 13th NPC.

Ma Xiaowei was nominated as the director of the newly created National Health Commission.

Ma Xiaowei was born in 1959 in north China's Shanxi Province. He was the deputy head of the dismantled National Health and Family Planning Commission. Ma Xiaowei studied in China Medical University from April 1978 to December 1982. He worked in the First Hospital of China Medical University for many years and had been its president. In 2001, Ma Xiaowei was appointed as Deputy Health Minister. In 2013, he served as the vice director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.