LI Zhaoxing

 

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, P.R. China

1967-1968: staff member at the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs(CPIFA);

1968-1970: working in Lishi, Shanxi Province, Shanggao, Jiangxi Province, and Shantou

Niutianyang Farm of the Guangzhou Military District;1970-1998:staff member & Attaché at

the Chinese Embassy to Kenya; Attaché, Third Secretary & Deputy Division Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; First Secretary at the Chinese Embassy to Lesotho; Deputy Director & Director in general of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Spokesman & Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Representative & Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations; and Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 1998-2001: Chinese Ambassador to the United States; 2001-2003: Party Secretary & Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 2004-2007: Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 2008-2013: Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress. Currently Honorary President of CPIFA, President of the Chinese Public Diplomacy Association, President of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, and President of the Translators Association of China.