Mr. Shen Guofang, born in Jiangsu Province in November 1952, graduated from Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (now Beijing Foreign Studies University).

1978-1981 Staff member, Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1981-1983 Attaché, Chinese Embassy to the Kingdom of Nepal

1983-1984 Attaché, Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1984-1993 Secretary, General Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1993-1996 Deputy Director General, Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1996-1998 Director General of the Information Department and Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1998-2002 Deputy Permanent Representative and Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the PRC to the United Nations

2002-2003 Studied at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC (Communist Party of China)

2003- 2005 Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

2005-         Editor in Chief of World Affairs Press