Zhou Wenzhong (diplomat)

Zhou Wenzhong (Chinese周文 重, Zhou Wenzhong Pinyin, born August 1945 in Jiangsu) is a Chinese politician and diplomat. From 2005 to 2010 he was Ambassador of the People 's Republic of China in the United States.

Zhou Wenzhong has been active since 1970 in the diplomatic service of the People's Republic of China. After two years of study at the University of Bath and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, he was employed from 1975 to 1978 at the Foreign Ministry. Until 1983 he was Attaché and Third Secretary in the Embassy of China in the United States. 1983 came in for four years back in the State Department and was appointed Deputy Consul General in San Francisco in 1987. In 1990, he was Ambassador of China in Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. After three years he returned to China and was until 1994 Deputy Director General of the Department ' North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry. Then he was in Los Angeles until 1995 Consul General of China. It was followed by three years as ambassador to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC Zhou Wenzhong 1998 was finally appointed Chinese Ambassador to Australia.

Zhou Wenzhong, 2001, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; In 2003 he was appointed Vice- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. In 2005 he exchanged his post with Yang Jiechi and since then Ambassador of the People 's Republic of China in the United States.