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Former Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America
Former Vice Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Mr. Cui Tiankai was born in 1952. He earned his M.A. at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, and before that he studied in Shanghai Normal University and Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages.
Mr. Cui became an interpreter of the UN Secretariat in 1981, and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in 1984, where he served successively as Director at the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, MFA Spokesperson, Director-General of the Policy Planning Department, and Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs. He was posted in New York as Minister Counselor at China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations between 1997 and 1999. He was Assistant Foreign Minister (2006- 2007), Chinese Ambassador to Japan (2007-2009), and Vice Foreign Minister (2009-2013). He was appointed Chinese Ambassador to the United States in 2013, and served the position until 2021.
