On the 26th, UN Secretary General Guterres announced the appointment of Xu Haoliang from China as Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Xu Haoliang will replace Usha Rao Monari from India. Xu Haoliang has been serving as Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Policy Bureau of UNDP since 2019. From 2013 to 2019, he served as the Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau. Previously, Xu Haoliang held multiple positions in the United Nations system and worked at United Nations headquarters as well as multiple regional offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, and Central Asia. Xu Haoliang graduated from Tongji University in China, and later received master's degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University. (New News Agency)