FU Ying

   

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Chairperson, Foreign Affairs

Committee of the National People’s

Congress of China

Fu Ying became chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China in March 2013, having joined China’s Foreign Service in the late 1970s. In 1992 in Cambodia, she became China’s first civilian UN peacekeeper and hence the start of her decade-long engagement with Asian affairs. From 1993 to 2004, she served successively as the Director, Counselor of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian Department, Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia (1997), China’s Ambassador to the Philippines (1998), and head of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian Department (2000). She was appointed the Chinese Ambassador to Australia in 2004 and later Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2007. From 2009 to 2013, she served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is now chair of Academic Committee of the newly established China’s Institution of International Strategy (CIIS) of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and specially invited vice chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE).