Yang Jiechi
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.
| Yang Jiechi 杨洁篪 |
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| Preceded by | Li Zhaoxing |
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| Born | May, 1950 Shanghai, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Yang Jiechi (Chinese: 杨洁篪; pinyin: Yáng Jiéchí; born May, 1950) is the current and the tenth foreign minister of the People's Republic of China. He was promoted to China's top diplomatic post on April 27, 2007.
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Yang was born in Shanghai and attended Bath University and the London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He previously worked as a diplomat in the United States, beginning as a Second Secretary in 1983 and later as Ambassador from 2001 to 2005, and as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for Latin America and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
During his tenure as ambassador to the United States, Yang worked to ease the tensions between the two countries following the 2001 mid-air collision between a U.S. EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet off the coast of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.
In April 2007, Yang replaced Li Zhaoxing, who had served as China's foreign minister since 2003, as the tenth foreign minister of China. As it is traditional for China's cabinet ministers to retire at the age of 65, Yang, who was 57 in 2007, is expected to hold China's top diplomatic post past 2012.
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| Preceded by Li Zhaoxing |
Chinese Ambassador to the United States 2001–2005 |
Succeeded by Zhou Wenzhong |
| Preceded by Li Zhaoxing |
Foreign Minister of China 2007– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
