Wang Guangya, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1950.
After study in Wales and at the London School of Economics and Politics, Wang's career was divided between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Mission to the UN in New York, broken by a year of study at Johns Hopkins University.
He served as China's ambassador to the United Nations from 2003-2008 and Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 - 2010. He is an alternate member of the 17th CPC Central Committee and in 2010, becmame Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.
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Member, CPC, Central Committee, Central LSG for Hong Kong and Macao Work |
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| 2017— |
Member, CPC, Central Committee, Central Foreign Affairs Commission |
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| 2012—2017 |
Member, 18th CPC, Central Committee |
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| 2010— |
Director, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council |
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| 2008—2010 |
Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs CPC, Party Committee |
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| 2008—2010 |
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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| 2007—2012 |
Alternate Member, 17th CPC, Central Committee |
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| 2003—2008 |
Ambassador, United Nations |
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| 1999—2003 |
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (In charge of Departments of International Organizations, Arms Control, and Treaties and Law) |
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| 1998—1999 |
Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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| 1998—1999 |
Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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| 1993—1998 |
Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1992—1993 |
Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1992—1993 |
Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1988—1992 |
Counselor, Permanent Mission of the PRC to the United Nations |
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| 1983—1988 |
Division Chief, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1983—1988 |
Third Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1983—1988 |
Deputy Division Chief, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department |
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| 1982—1983 |
Attache, Permanent Mission of the PRC to the United Nations |
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| 1981—1982 |
Student, Johns Hopkins University USA, Washington D.C. |
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| 1977—1981 |
Attache, Permanent Mission of the PRC to the United Nations |
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| 1977—1981 |
Staff, Permanent Mission of the PRC to the United Nations |
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| 1975—1977 |
Member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Translation and Interpretation Department |
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| 1972—1975 |
Student, Atlantic College United Kingdom, Wales |
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| 1972—1975 |
Student, London School of Economics United Kingdom, London |
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