Director General: Li Xing

Deputy Directors General: Tang Jun  

Introduction: The Bureau permanently houses diplomatic records accumulated since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its main functions are to: collect and permanently manage records accumulated in the Ministry and its affiliated agencies; guide and supervise the archival work of the departments and affiliated agencies of the Ministry, China’s overseas diplomatic and consular missions and the offices of the commissioners of the Ministry in the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions; procure, select, distribute and manage diplomacy-related books, periodicals, newspapers and reference books for departments of the Ministry and overseas missions and provide access to them. The Bureau assumes the administrative functions over its own archival work.

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