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 |