任命 (rèn mìng): to appoint; (job) appointment

After three months of rigorous selection, the company's board of directors finally appointed her as the new marketing director, responsible for business across the entire Asia-Pacific region.

According to the latest decision of the State Council, Li Ming has been appointed as China's ambassador to France and will travel to Paris next month to take up his post.

The first thing the new president did after taking office was to appoint an experienced diplomat as secretary of state in order to repair tense relations with neighboring countries.

Because of his outstanding contributions in scientific research, the university appointed him as head of the physics department, hoping he could lead the team to achieve more breakthroughs.

After the board of directors announced the appointment of Wang Fang as chief financial officer, the company's stock price rose by five percent that afternoon.