Liu Xiaoming | |
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People's Republic of China Ambassador to United Kingdom | |
Assumed office March 2010 |
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Preceded by | Fu Ying |
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Born | January 1956 (age 61) Jieyang, Guangdong, China |
Liu Xiaoming | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 刘晓明 | ||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 劉曉明 | ||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Xiǎomíng |
Liu Xiaoming (born January 1956 in Jieyang, Guangdong) is a Chinese diplomat currently serving as ambassador to the United Kingdom. He graduated from Dalian University of Foreign Languages with a major in English and undertook further studies in the United States, obtaining a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1983.
Between 2001 and 2003, Liu acted as China's ambassador in Egypt, and from 2006 to 2010 as Chinese ambassador in North Korea. In 2010 he replaced Fu Ying as Chinese ambassador in the UK.