Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, born in Jiangsu Province in August 1945, is a university graduate.

1970-1973    Staff member of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau of the People’s epublic of China
1973-1975    Student at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom
1975-1978    Staff member of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s  Republic of China
1978-1983   Attaché and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to USA

1983-1987    Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director and then Division Director of the Department of Translation and   Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
1987-1990    Deputy Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco in the United States of America
1990-1993    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda
1993-1994    Deputy Director General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of   the People’s Republic of China
1994-1995    Consul General (Ambassadorial Rank) of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles in the United States of America
1995-1998    Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America
1998-2001    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia
2001-2003    Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
2003-2005    Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
2005-2010    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of to the United States of America
2010- now     Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia；Vice President, China-US People’s Friendship Association