Zhang Kunsheng, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs (concurrently Director-General of the Protocol Department)

Area of responsibilities: Latin America and the Caribbean, protocol

Born in Shanxi Province in August 1958. Doctor of Laws.

1985-1991 Staff Member, Attaché, Third Secretary, General Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)

1991-1995 PhD Candidate, International Politics, Department of International Politics, Peking University

1995-1998 Second Secretary, Deputy Office Director, First Secretary, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, MFA

1998-2001 First Secretary, Chinese Embassy in the United States of America

2001-2003 Counselor, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, MFA

2003-2007 Counselor, General Office, MFA

2007-2011 Director-General, Protocol Department, MFA

2011-　　  Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

Married with a daughter.