Cheng Guoping

Cheng Guoping (born May 1952 in Hebei ) is a diplomat of the People's Republic of China , who was Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2008 to 2009 and Deputy Foreign Minister from 2011 to 2015.

Life

Cheng Guoping completed a law degree and worked as a teacher in the Beijing district of Dongcheng between 1975 and 1980 , and from 1980 to 1986 worked in the collection and translation department of the legal publishing house in Beijing. He then completed postgraduate studies in international law at the University of Beijing between 1984 and 1986 and subsequently joined the Foreign Service. He was initially used in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and between 1986 and 1993 he was successively Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Deputy Head of Unit and Head of Unit in the Department for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, before he was First Secretary at the Embassy in Russia from 1993 to 1996 .

After his return, Cheng was first secretary in the Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1997 and then from 1997 to 2001 Counselor at the Embassy in Georgia and then from 2001 to 2003 Consul General in Khabarovsk . Subsequently, from 2003 to 2007 he worked again as counselor at the embassy in Russia and from 2007 to 2008 Director General of the Department for Europe and Central Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As the successor to Zhang Xiyun he was in September 2008 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Kazakhstan and remained in that post until February 2010 when, Zhou Li began his local successor in May of 2010. He was then a member of the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2011 and most recently Deputy Foreign Minister between 2011 and 2015. He is married and has one daughter.

Web link

• Biography on the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chinese Ambassadors to Kazakhstan on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs