AMBASSADOR LI ZHAOXING
Embassy of China

                Ambassador Li Zhaoxing is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States.  Between 1995 and 1998 he served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.  He has previously served as Guest Professor of Beijing University and Nankai University; and from 1992 to 1995 he served as Permanent Representative and Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations.  The Ambassador was also assigned as the Deputy Director General and Director General of the Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho; Staff Member and Deputy Division Chief of the Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Staff Member and Attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Kenya; and Staff Member of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs.  From 1964 to 1967 he was a postgraduate student at Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages.