Mr. Wan Yongxiang, born in January 1944 in Pingxing, Henan Province, served as Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Member of the MFA Party Committee (vice ministerial level, 01/1993–10/1996). He also worked in the Information Department, the Department of African Affairs, the Department of Personnel of the MFA, and the Chinese embassies in Mali, Czechoslovakia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Brazil.
05/1965
Joined the Communist Party of China
07/1965
Graduated from college and joined the Foreign Service
03/1978–07/1982
Deputy Division Director, Information Department, MFA
07/1982–09/1983
Deputy Division Director, Department of African Affairs, MFA
09/1983–09/1984
Division Director, Department of Personnel, MFA
09/1984–07/1986
Deputy Director General, Department of Personnel, MFA
07/1987–10/1989
Director General, Department of Personnel, MFA
10/1989–03/1990
Assistant Foreign Minister and concurrently Director General of the Department of Personnel, MFA
03/1990–04/1992
Assistant Foreign Minister and Member of the MFA Party Committee
04/1992–01/1993
Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
01/1993–10/1996
Secretary, Discipline Inspection Commission, MFA
Member of the MFA Party Committee
Member of the Central Secrets Committee
10/1996–06/1999
Ambassador to the DPRK
06/1999–03/2002
Ambassador to Brazil
03/2003–Present
Member of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macao
Commissioner of MFA in the Macao Special Administrative Region
He also served as Delegate to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth National Congresses of the CPC, Member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Deputy Director of the CPPCC Subcommittee of Foreign Affairs.
