- Yang Jiechi
Infobox_President | name=Yang Jiechi
杨洁篪
nationality=Chinese
order=Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
term_start=2007
term_end=
predecessor=Li Zhaoxing
successor=
birth_date=May, 1950
birth_place=Shanghai ,China
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=
party=Communist Party of China
vice_president=|Yang Jiechi (zh-cp |c=杨洁篪 |p=Yáng Jiéchí; born May, 1950) is the current and the tenth
foreign minister of thePeople's Republic of China . He was promoted to China's top diplomatic post onApril 27 ,2007 .Biography
Yang was born in
Shanghai and attendedUniversity of Bath and theLondon School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He previously worked as a diplomat in theUnited 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 andHong 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 theSouth 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.ee also
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Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
*People's Republic of China diplomatic missions External links
* [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/27/content_6034725.htm Biography of Yang Jiechi] ,
Xinhuanet .
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