Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia

Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, born in Jiangsu Province in August 1945, is a university graduate. 1970-1973, Staff member of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau of the People’s republic of China; 1973-1975, student at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom; 1975-1978, staff member of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; 1978-1983, Attaché and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America; 1983-1987, Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director and then Division Director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; 1987-1990, Deputy Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco in the United States of America; 1990-1993, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda; 1993-1994, Deputy Director General of the Department of North American and Oceania Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; 1994-1995, Consul General (Ambassadorial Rank) of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles in the United States of America; 1995-1998, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America; 1998-2001, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia; 2001-2003, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; 2003-2005, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China; 2005-2010, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of to the United States of America;2010-, Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia; Vice President, China-US People’s Friendship Association.