Wang Chao, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Areas of responsibility: Europe, translation and interpretation, archives and Party-related affairs 

Born in April 1960, a native of Hebei Province, Bachelor of Arts from Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages.

1982 Staff Member, Bureau of Aid to Foreign Countries, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (MOFERT), People's Republic of China

1982-1986 Attaché, Economic and Commercial Section, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Malta

1986-1989 Economist, China National Complete Plant Export Corporation

1989-1991 Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Economic and Commercial Section, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Islamic Republic of Iran

1991-1992 Economist, China National Complete Plant Export Corporation

1992 Official, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, MOFERT

1992-1998 Deputy Director, Director, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)

1998-2002 Deputy Director-General, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, MOFTEC

2002-2003 Director-General, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, MOFTEC

2003-2004 Director-General, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)

2004-2006 Member of the CPC Standing Committee and Vice Governor of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

2006 Director-General, Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs, MOFCOM

2006-2010 Assistant Minister

2010-2013 Vice Minister

2013-2019 Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Wang Chao is married with a son.