NANCHANG, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Wu Xinxiong, acting governor of east China's Jiangxi Province, was elected governor of the province by the provincial legislature on Monday.

Wu, 58, was elected to the post at the fifth session of the 10th Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress.

He was appointed acting governor of the province last October.

Wu, a native of Jiangyin city, east China's Jiangsu Province, received a bachelor's degree of chemistry from the Nanjing University of Technology in 1977, and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1979.

He has served as deputy secretary of the CPC Jiangxi ProvincialCommittee, vice governor of the province and secretary of the CPC Nanchang City Committee since January 2003.