China Vitae : Biography of Chen Mingming

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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 7/17/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

Chen Mingming 陈明明

Ambassador of the PRC to New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Born: 1950

Birthplace: Shandong Province

Biography

Chen Mingming, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shandong Province. He was born in 1950 and graduated from Beijing Foreign Languages Institute.

For most of the 1980s, Chen was a senior staffer for the Translation and Interpretation Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After seven years with the department, he became second secretary for the Chinese Embassy in the United States in 1987; while there, he rose to assume the first secretary position before leaving to return to China in 1990.

Chen was assigned to the North American and Oceania Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as division director and counselor. In 1998, he became deputy director-general of the department.

After three years as deputy director-general, Chen was made ambassador to New Zealand and the Cook Islands in 2001.

Career Data

2001—	Ambassador, Chinese Embassy New Zealand, Wellington
2001—	Ambassador, Chinese Embassy Cook Islands, Rarotonga
1998—2001	Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, North American and Oceania Affairs Department
1990—1998	Deputy Division Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, North American and Oceania Affairs Department
1990—1998	Division Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, North American and Oceania Affairs Department
1990—1998	Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, North American and Oceania Affairs Department
1987—1990	Second Secretary, Chinese Embassy USA, Washington D.C.
1987—1990	First Secretary, Chinese Embassy USA, Washington D.C.
1980—1987	Third Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Translation and Interpretation Department
1980—1987	Second Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Translation and Interpretation Department
1980—1987	Deputy Division Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Translation and Interpretation Department
1978—1980	Staff Member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Education and Training Department
	Graduate, Beijing Foreign Languages Institute Beijing Municipality

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