Shi Mingde

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Shi Mingde (2016)

Shi Mingde (Chinese: 史明德; Pinyin: Shǐ Míngdé; * December 1954 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese diplomat . From August 2012 to March 2019 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China in Berlin . Ambassador Wu Ken has been his successor in this post since March 2019 .

Career

1964 Shi Mingde was included in the special program of the Beijing Foreign Language School and studied until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 German . He studied in the GDR from 1972 to 1975 . In 1975 he returned to China and had to work in agriculture for eleven months. Subsequently, from 1976 to 1981, he worked for the Chinese embassy in the GDR. In 1981 Shi Mingde married the university lecturer and translator for the German language Xu Jinghua .

In the same year he was employed in the service office for diplomats in Beijing and five years later returned to the GDR as second secretary of the embassy. In 1990 Shi Mingde became Vice Head of the Western Europe Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and in 1993 Counselor in Bonn . From 1997 to 2002 he was Counselor to the Planning Staff and Vice Head of Department for Western Europe at the Chinese Foreign Ministry. From 2002 he worked as envoy of the embassy in Berlin before he was appointed general director of the central office for foreign affairs of the central committee of the Communist Party of China in 2006 . In August 2010 he became ambassador in Vienna for two years , before he succeeded Wu Hongbo as the Chinese ambassador in Berlin from August 2012 to March 2019 . He handed over his credentials to the Federal President on August 24, 2012.

Shi Mingde is married and has one son.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Shi Mingde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b welt.de, China sends its best man to Germany (with photo), August 16, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Website of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, curriculum vitae of Ambassador Shi Mingde , August 15, 2012
  3. ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/1280984582056/peking-entsendet-einen-deutsch-profi-nach-oesterreich
  4. ↑ Calendar of the Federal President , accessed on August 25, 2012
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Shi is the family name here, Mingde is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shi, Mingde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 史明德 (Chinese); Shǐ, Míngdé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai