Ministry of Foreign Affairs
People’s Republic of China
Wan Yongxiang

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

He also served as Delegate to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth National Congresses of the CPC, Member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Deputy Director of the CPPCC Subcommittee of Foreign Affairs.