Summary Wang was appointed to head the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
China Thursday named Wang Qishan, a leading economic planner and trade negotiator, as the top official tasked with fighting corruption -- seen by the Communist Party as a major threat to its rule.
Wang was appointed to head the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, a party organ tasked with keeping officials in line.
He was also named to the seven-man committee headed by new party chief Xi Jinping that will rule the country.
Wang, 64, has been a vice premier in charge of financial affairs since 2008 and previously was a vice governor of the central bank.
He is widely known in international circles from years of representing China at high-level economic and trade talks, most notably with the European Union and the United States.
Wang was named Wednesday as a member of the commission but the party only revealed Thursday that he would head it.
In an address after he was named head of the party, Xi said China's Communist rulers face "many severe challenges" including corruption.
