54岁的杜青林取代陈耀邦出任农业部部长。国家主席江泽民签署第五十七号主席令,公布了由九届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议通过的这一决定。 国务院在提请审议这一人事任命的议案中说,杜青林熟悉党务工作和宏观经济工作,有较强的组织领导能力和驾驭全局的能力,有长期从事地方工作和基层工作的经验。他事业心、责任感强,作风深入,经常深入基层特别是民族地区和贫困地区进行调查研究,重视做好民族工作和 54-year-old Du Qinglin replaced Chen Yaobang as Minister of Agriculture. President Jiang Zemin signed Order No. 57, promulgating the decision passed by the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee. In a motion calling for consideration of the appointment of personnel, the State Council said that Du Qinglin is familiar with party work and macroeconomic work, has strong ability to organize leadership and control the overall situation, and has long been engaged in local work and grassroots work experience. With his professionalism, strong sense of responsibility and style of work, he often conducted investigations and studies at the grass-roots level, especially in minority areas and poor areas, and attached importance to national work and