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Biography

Tang Shubei,male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. Born in 1931, he joined the CPC in 1949 and graduated from the East China School of Journalism in Shanghai.

Tang began his career as a journalist but soon turned his interest to state and diplomatic affairs, where he specialized in dealing with such regions as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. After serving as editor of the Fujian Daily and of the Broadcasting Department of the China News Service in the 1950s, Tang became division chief for the Department of Consular Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the 1980s, he served as a diplomat in China's embassies in Japan and the U.S.A., in which he served as minister. Returning to China, he became a specialist in Taiwanese issues, serving at the Taiwan Affairs Offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Council and the CPC Central Committee. In the 1990s, he sat on committees involving Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, studying reunification issues. He was deputy executive president of the Association for Relations Across Taiwan Straits.

Tang was a standing committee member of the 8th and 9th CPPCC National Committees. He became deputy director of the Office for Taiwan Affairs under the CPC Central Committee in 1991.