Wang Chao, former deputy minister of China Foreign Ministry, replaced Zhang Ye Sui as the new China National People's Congress spokesman.
Wang Chao appeared at the press conference before the opening of the National People's Congress on Saturday (March 4).
Wang Chao, born in 1960, was the youngest deputy minister in China.According to public resumes, after graduating from the Guangzhou Academy of Foreign Languages, Wang Chao began to work in the former Ministry of Economic and Trade and Commerce in 1982 to be responsible for foreign trade. In 2003, he served as the director of the Ministry of Commerce.
From 2004 to 2006, Wang Chao briefly served as a member of the Standing Committee and Deputy Governor of the State Committee of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. In 2006, he returned to the Ministry of Commerce.In 2010, he was promoted to the Deputy Minister of Commerce.
Wang Chao transferred to the diplomatic system in 2013. At the age of 53, he was the youngest deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time. He was in charge of European regional affairs, translation, archives and party affairs work.
After unloading the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2019, he served as the president of the Chinese People's Foreign Affairs Society. He is the youngest president of the diplomatic society over the years.After Wang Chao, after Zeng Tao, Yao Guang, Zhou Jue, Jiang Enzhu, Li Zhaoxing, Fu Ying, and Zhang Yesui, the eighth spokesman of the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of which Jiang Enzhu, Fu Ying, and Zhang Ye were all former deputy foreign ministers.
