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Yang Jiechi | |||||||||||
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杨洁篪 | |||||||||||
 Yang in February 2020 | |||||||||||
| Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission[a] | |||||||||||
| In office August 2013 – 1 January 2023 | |||||||||||
| Deputy | Liu Jianchao | ||||||||||
| General Secretary | Xi Jinping | ||||||||||
| Foreign Minister | Wang Yi | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Dai Bingguo | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Yi | ||||||||||
| State Councilor of the People's Republic of China | |||||||||||
| In office 16 March 2013 – 19 March 2018 | |||||||||||
| Premier | Li Keqiang | ||||||||||
| 10th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |||||||||||
| In office 27 April 2007 – 16 March 2013 | |||||||||||
| Premier | Wen Jiabao | ||||||||||
| Deputy | Zhang Zhijun | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Li Zhaoxing | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Yi | ||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||
| Born | 1 May 1950 Shanghai, People's Republic of China | ||||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1971–present)[1] | ||||||||||
| Education | |||||||||||
| Nickname | Tiger Yang | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨洁篪 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 楊潔篪 | ||||||||||
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Yang Jiechi (Chinese: 杨洁篪; pinyin: Yáng Jiéchí; born 1 May 1950) is a Chinese senior diplomat and retired politician. He served as director of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission from 2013 and 2022, State Councilor from 2013 to 2018, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2007 to 2013.
Yang previously served as Chinese Ambassador to the United States from 2000 to 2004, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2007, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1998, and Chinese Envoy to the United States from 1993 to 1995. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972, after previously served as a worker at the Shanghai City Pujiang Electric Meter Factory from 1968 to 1972.[2]
Yang studied international relations at Ealing College, University of Bath, and London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He received a Doctor of History in world history from Nanjing University in 2006 through an on-the-job graduate program.
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