Curriculum Vitae of Ambassdor Zhou Wenzhong

 

          Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, born in Jiangsu Province in August 1945, is a university graduate.

         1970-1973   Staff member of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau of the People's Republic of  China

         1973-1975   Student at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom

         1975-1978   Staff member of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

         1978-1983   Attache and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America

          1983-1987   Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director and then Division Director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation,

                                 Ministry of Foreign Affairs

          1987-1990   Deputy Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco

          1990-1993   Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to  Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda

          1993-1994   Deputy Director General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs,  Ministry of Foreign Affairs

          1994-1995   Consul General(Ambassadorial Rank)of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles

          1995-1998   Minister of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China to the United States of  America

          1998-2001   Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of to the Commonwealth of Australia

          2001-2003   Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

          2003-2005   Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

          2005-  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of to the United StatesAmbassador Zhou is married with

                      one daughter.