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Editor's Note:

In a great leap for public diplomacy, 12 Chinese diplomats will host a series of interviews to answer our readers' questions on regional and international affairs. The series, co-hosted by China Daily's website, the Foreign Ministry, People.com.cn, and Chinanews.com, runs from Jan 5. The director-general interviews will look back at China's diplomacy in 2011 and exchange views on the country's relations with the world in 2012.


Biography of Chen Xiaodong
2012-01-10 13:17     chinadaily.com.cn



Biography of Chen Xiaodong

Chen Xiaodong was born in East China's Anhui province in December 1965.

2010 to present

Director-general, the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry

2008-2010

Minister, Embassy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2007-2008

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Iraq

2002-2007

Counsellor and Deputy Director-general, the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry

1999-2002

First Secretary and Counsellor, Embassy in the Arab Republic of Egypt

1997-1999

Second Secretary and First Secretary, Embassy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

1994-1997

Third Secretary and Deputy Director, the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry

1989-1994

Staff Member, Attaché and Third Secretary, Embassy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1987-1989

Staff Member, the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry

 

 

Agenda
Guest: Xie Feng
Time: Jan 20, 2012
Director-general of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Foreign Ministry