Compiled from the following sources:
Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Revision History:
Biography Revised: 6/28/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Tang Shubei 唐树备
Deputy Director of the Office for Taiwan Affairs of the CPC Central Committee
Born: 1931
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.
Career Data
1998—2003 |
Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee |
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1998—2003 |
Vice-Chairman, CPPCC, Subcommittee for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese |
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1995—1997 |
Member, Hong Kong SAR Preparatory Committee |
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1993—1998 |
Member, 8th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee |
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1993—1998 |
Vice-Chairman, CPPCC, Coordinating Committee for the Reunification of Motherland |
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1991— |
Deputy Director, CPC, Central Committee, Offices Under Central Committee, Taiwan Affairs Office |
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1989—???? |
Deputy Director, Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council |
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1986—1988 |
Ambassador, Chinese Embassy USA, Washington D.C. |
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1983—1986 |
Consul-General, Chinese Consulate General USA, California, San Francisco |
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1982—1983 |
Division Chief, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Consular Affairs |
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Secretary, Chinese Embassy Japan, Tokyo |
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1971—1980 |
Deputy Division Chief, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Consular Affairs |
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1957—1969 |
Editor, China News Service, Broadcasting Department |
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1955—???? |
Editor, Fujian Daily |
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1949 |
Joined, CPC |
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