Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong

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

1970-1973 Staff member of the Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions

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 Attaché and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of Chinain 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 and DCM of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America

1998-2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China 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 China to the United States of America

Ambassador Zhou is married with one daughter.