Li Zhaoxing
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China
Born on October 1940, native of Qingdao, Shandong Province
| 1956 – 1959 | Studied in Jiaonan No.1 Senior High School |
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| 1959 – 1964 | Studied in Beijing University |
| 1964 – 1967 | Engaged in advanced studies in postgraduate class of Beijing International Studies University |
| 1967 – 1968 | Member of the Chinese people’s Institute of Foreign Affairs |
| 1968 – 1970 | Work in the cadre school in Lishi, Shanxi and Shanggao, Jiangxi and Niutianyang Farm in Shantou, Guangzhou Military Area |
| 1970 – 1977 | China’s staff and retinue in the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya |
| 1977 – 1983 | Staff and deputy director general of the Department of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1983 – 1985 | China’s First Secretary in the Embassy of The Kingdom of Lesotho |
| 1985 – 1990 | Deputy director, director of the Department of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1990 – 1993 | Assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1993 – 1995 | China’s ambassador plenipotentiary and extraordinary and delegate in the United Nation |
| 1995 – 1998 | Deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1998 – 2001 | China’s ambassador plenipotentiary and extraordinary in the United States |
| 2001 – 2003 | Vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2003 – 2007 | Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| March 2008 | Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress |
| April 2008 | Chairman Association for International Friendly Contact |
| November 2009 | Elected as the president of Translators Association of China |
Present member of the standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of 11th Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the honorary chairman of the Chinese people’s Institute of Foreign Affairs
Honored as the “poetic diplomat”, published poetry collection "Youth China."
