Zhang Zhijun
| Zhang Zhijun | |
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| 张志军 | |
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| Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office | |
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Assumed office 17 March 2013 |
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| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Deputy | Zheng Lizhong, Sun Yafu, Ye Kedong, Chen Yuanfeng |
| Preceded by | Wang Yi |
| Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 2009 – 16 March 2013 |
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| Minister | Yang Jiechi |
| Premier | Wen Jiabao |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1953 (age 64) Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
| Nationality |
 People's Republic of China
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Zhang Zhijun (Chinese: 张志军; pinyin: Zhāng Zhìjūn; born February 1, 1953) is a politician in the People's Republic of China. Since 17 March 2013, he has served as the Minister of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
In March 2013, speaking at the 11th Cross-Strait Relations Symposium in Pingtan, Fujian, Zhang called for increased quality and efficiency of cross-strait exchanges and cooperation. The symposium was attended by people from both sides, including some from Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. He wished to visit Taiwan as well as to meet his counterpart, Wang Yu-chi, the head of the Mainland Affairs Council.
On 11 February 2014, Zhang met with Wang Yu-chi in Nanjing, the first high-level government-to-government official contact between the two sides since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. The meeting took place at the Purple Palace in Nanjing. Upon meeting with Wang, both of them agreed to establish a direct and regular communication channel between the two sides for future engagement under the 1992 Consensus. They also agreed on finding a solution for health insurance coverage aiming towards Taiwanese students studying in the mainland, on pragmatically establishing SEF and ARATS offices in each other's territory and on studying the feasibility of allowing visits to detained persons once offices have been established.
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