Deputy Director-General at the World Trade Organization since 2013. He has extensive experience in world trade and economics, both as a senior government official and subsequently as China’s ambassador to the WTO. Prior to becoming China’s ambassador to the WTO in 2011, he was Assistant Minister and subsequently China’s Vice Minister of Commerce in charge of multilateral and regional trade negotiations and cooperation. Besides his contribution to China’s WTO accession, he played a leading role in negotiating numerous free trade agreements (FTAs), including the China-ASEAN agreement, China’s first FTA. He also worked as a diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in the United States for more than four years from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. He obtained a Master’s degree in economics from Nankai University in China in 1999.
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