Yang Jiechi, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of the region of Latin America, foreign-related affairs involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as the work of translation and interpretation and CPC affairs

Mr. Yang Jiechi, born in Shanghai May 1950, Bachelor degree.

1973-1975 Student at London School of Economics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1975-1983 Staff member and then Second Secretary, Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1983-1987 Second Secretary, First Secretary and then Counsellor, Chinese Embassy to the United States of America

1987-1990 Counsellor and Director, Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1990-1993 Counsellor and Director, and then Deputy Director-General, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1993-1995 Minister, Chinese Embassy to the United States of America

1995-1998 Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1998-2001 Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2001-2005 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America

2005- Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs