Mr. Dai Bingguo, native of Yinjiang, Guizhou Province, was born in March 1941. He studied in Foreign Affairs College after graduation from the Department of Foreign Languages of Sichuan University in 1964 and served successively as staff member of the Department of Soviet and East European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Attaché of Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, Deputy Division Director and Division Director of the Department of Soviet and East European Affairs of MFA.
01/1985 - 06/1986
Deputy Director General, Department of Soviet and East European Affairs, MFA
06/1986 - 10/1989
Director General, Department of Soviet and East European Affairs, MFA
10/1989 - 12/1991
Ambassador to Hungary
12/1991 - 12/1993
Assistant Minister and Member of the Party Committee, MFA
12/1993 – 06/1995
Vice Minister and Member of the Party Committee, MFA
06/1995 – 08/1997
Vice Minister, International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
08/1997 – 03/2003
Minister, International Department, CPC Central Committee
03/2003
Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Minister, MFA
03/2005
Minister of Central Foreign Affairs Office, Secretary of the MFA Party Committee, Deputy Minister of MFA, Member of the 15th and 16th CPC Central Committee
