Yang Jiechi
| Yang Jiechi | |
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| 杨洁篪 | |
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| State Councilor of the People's Republic of China | |
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Assumed office 16 March 2013 Serving with Yang Jing, Chang Wanquan, Guo Shengkun, Wang Yong |
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| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Director of the Foreign Affairs Leading Group Office | |
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Assumed office August 2013 |
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| General Secretary | Xi Jinping |
| Preceded by | Dai Bingguo |
| Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China | |
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In office 27 April 2007 – 16 March 2013 |
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| Premier | Wen Jiabao |
| Deputy | Zhang Zhijun |
| Preceded by | Li Zhaoxing |
| Succeeded by | Wang Yi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 May 1950 Shanghai, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Le Aimei |
| Alma mater |
University of Bath London School of Economics Nanjing University |
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| Simplified Chinese | 杨洁篪 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊潔篪 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yáng Jiéchí |
Yang Jiechi (born 1 May 1950) is a high-ranking Chinese politician and diplomat. He was the tenth Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, between 2007 and 2013. He joined the inner circle of the State Council in 2013, as a State Councilor under Premier Li Keqiang. In this capacity, he serves as director of the Foreign Affairs Leading Group Office, one of the most prominent architects of China's foreign policy. Yang spent much of his professional life in the United States, where he served as Chinese Ambassador from 2001 to 2005.
Yang was born in Shanghai on 1 May 1950. He graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language School and attended the University of Bath and the London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He received a PhD in history from Nanjing University.
He previously served as a diplomat in the United 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 and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. During the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, Yang accompanied Wan Li, the chairman of the National People's Congress, on a trip to North America.
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 the South China Sea.
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