Li Zhaoxing

Infobox_President | name=Li Zhaoxing
李肇星


nationality=Chinese
order=Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
term_start=2003
term_end=April, 2007
predecessor=Tang Jiaxuan
successor=Yang Jiechi
birth_date=birth date and age|1940|10|20
birth_place=Shandong, China
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=
party=Communist Party of China
vice_president=|

Li Zhaoxing (zh-cp |c=李肇星 |p=Lǐ Zhàoxīng; born October 20, 1940) was the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2007.

He was born in Jiaonan, Qingdao,Shandong province and graduated from Peking University in 1964. He worked as a diplomat in Africa before becoming Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995, ambassador to the United States in 1998, and Foreign Minister in 2003. He is also now one of the Global Elders and a professor at Peking University. He is married, and has one son.

ee also

*Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
*People's Republic of China diplomatic missions

External links

* [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=411 Biography] , China Vitae
* [http://www.chinatoday.com/who/l/lizhaoxing.htm Biography] , CHINATODAY.COM