Wang Yi

Wang Yi

Wang Yi, male, Han nationality, born in October 1953, Beijing City, joined the work in September 1969, joined China Communist Party in May 1981, graduated from Beijing International Studies University in Asia and Africa, graduated from Japan, majored in economics and master of economics.

He is now a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee, state councilor, member of the Party group of the State Council, and Minister of foreign affairs.

Biography of characters

1969-1977 soldier, company correspondent, battalion reporter and acting propaganda officer of Heilongjiang production and Construction Corps

From 1977 to 1978, he returned to the city for distribution and worked in the Information Office of the Ministry of Posts and telecommunications

1978-1982 years of learning Japanese in Asian and African languages at Beijing International Studies University

1982-1989 member, entourage, deputy director and director of the Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1989-1994 counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan (1992.05), counsellor at the rank of minister (1993.04)

1994-1995 deputy director general of the Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Director General of the Asia Department of the Ministry of foreign affairs, 1995-1998 (during which: visiting scholar of Georgetown University, USA, June 1997-january 1998)

1998-2001 Assistant Minister of foreign affairs, member of the Party committee and director of the Political Research Office

(from 1996 to 1998, he studied in the postgraduate course of world economy major of APEC research center of Nankai University and obtained a master's degree in economics; from March 2000 to May 2000, he studied in the postgraduate course of provincial and ministerial cadres of the Central Party school.)

Vice Foreign Minister and member of the Party committee, 2001-2004

Ambassador to Japan 2004-2007

Secretary of the Party committee and vice minister of the Ministry of foreign affairs, 2007-2008

Director of the central Taiwan Affairs Office and director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, 2008-2013

Minister of foreign affairs and Deputy Secretary of the Party committee, 2013-2018

2018 - state councilor, member of the Party group of the State Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hold a post

Member of the 17th, 18th and 19th CPC Central Committee.

Family situation

Married with a daughter.