09/1964

Career started

07/1965 – 07/1966

Worked in the Social Education Working Team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Hunan Province

08/1966 – 11/1969

Staff member of the MFA India Research Institute

11/1969 – 07/1972

Worked in the MFA Cadre's School in Hunan Province

07/1972 – 10/1978

Worked in the Department of Personnel and then the Department of International Organizations and Conferences of the MFA

10/1978 – 07/1980

Studied in an English Training Program in the China Foreign Affairs University

07/1980 – 12/1984

Chinese Secretary of the Diplomatic Service Bureau (DSB)

12/1984 – 02/1987

Deputy General Manager of the Personnel Service Corporation of the DSB

02/1987 – 05/1989

Deputy Director General of the DSB and General Manager of the Personnel Service Corporation

05/1989 – 11/1992

Director General of the DSB

11/1992 – 06/1994

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Portuguese Republic

06/1994 – 05/1998

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the CPC Committee of the MFA

05/1998 – 04/2001

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Russia (vice-ministerial level)

04/2001 – 06/2003

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia

06/2003 – Present

Member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference