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BEIJING, March 12 (Reuters) - China's Jin Zhuanglong was nominated on Sunday to stay on as the minister of industry and information technology, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Wang Zhigang was nominated to stay on as minister of science and technology, Xinhua reported.

The appointments come as Chinese President Xi Jinping has ramped up calls for central and local governments to reduce the country's reliance on foreign supply chains for core technologies amid U.S. export controls that have choked supplies of key equipment to some Chinese tech firms and sectors. (Reporting by Eduardo Baptista and Albee Zhang; Editing by William Mallard and Raju Gopalakrishnan)