Original title: News! The new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, took office, and Hua Chunying tweeted: I wish Ambassador Qin Gang all the best!
[环球网快讯]”I wish Ambassador Qin Gang all the best.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying just tweeted, announcing that Qin Gang has appointed China’s ambassador to the United States.
In the early morning of July 29, Beijing time, Hua Chunying tweeted: “A safe and smooth journey across the Pacific Ocean! I wish Ambassador Qin Gang all the best.” ↓
In the video attached to the tweet, Qin Gang, dressed in formal attire, boarded the plane and turned and waved in greeting. In the Twitter account at the end of the tweet, Qin Gang’s profile is shown as “Chinese Ambassador to the United States“. ↓
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Qin Gang was born in Tianjin in March 1966. He graduated from the International Politics Department of the School of International Relations. In 1988, he served as the Chinese secretary of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992 and worked in the Department of Western Europe. He served alternately in the British Embassy, serving as Deputy Director and Director of the Department of Western Europe, and Counselor of the Embassy in the UK.
In 2005, Qin Gang served as deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and concurrently as a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2010, Qin Gang became the Minister of the Chinese Embassy in the UK. A year later, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director of the Information Department and served as the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the second time. In 2014, Qin Gang was transferred to the Director-General of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2017, he was appointed Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2018, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was in charge of European regional affairs and news and protocol work.
Before Qin Gang, Cui Tiankai was the Chinese ambassador to the United States.
On June 21 this year, the website of the Chinese Embassy in the United States published a farewell letter from Ambassador Cui Tiankai to overseas Chinese in the United States, stating that he will end his more than eight-year term in the United States, and recently resigned and returned to China, and thanked the majority of overseas Chinese in the United States for their work. Care and support.
According to the public resume, Cui Tiankai was born in October 1952 and served as Minister Counselor of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, Ambassador to Japan, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Cui Tiankai stated in his farewell letter that since he became China’s ambassador to the United States in April 2013, this is the longest foreign term in his diplomatic career and has experienced many historical events. The British “Guardian” reported at the time that Cui Tiankai was China’s longest-serving ambassador in the United States. He witnessed the turbulence in Sino-US relations during Trump’s tenure and remained in office until the US government transitioned to the Biden period.
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