Ji Yan Spring and Autumn

On January 1st, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, posted an article on the official media as the director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office (Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee), showing that he had fully replaced Yang Jiechi in charge of Chinese diplomacy.Two days before, the Chinese ambassador to the United States Qin Gang also replaced Wang Yi as a foreign minister.As a result, the new diplomatic team in China was basically set, and Wang Yi and Qin Gang became the backbone of the new team.

The image of 69 -year -old Wang Yi is elegant and gentle. He has been a Chinese foreign minister for 10 years and is known as "a real man who changes China's diplomatic image."When Wang Yi was young and worked as a worker, he was admitted to Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute in 1978. After graduating in 1982, he entered the diplomatic system and was promoted to the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the age of 48. He was the youngest deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time.

In 2004, Wang Yi served as the Chinese ambassador to Japan. After returning to China in 2007, he was promoted to the party committee secretary and deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and became a ministerial -level member.In 2008, Wang Yi was transferred to the director of the State Council, and in 2013, he replaced Yang Jiezheng as a foreign minister.Yang Jieyi was promoted to the director of the State Councilor and the Office of the Leading Group of the Central Foreign Affairs.In the past 10 years, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi became the backbone of the Chinese diplomatic team.

After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017, the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group was promoted to the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, and the status of senior officials in Chinese diplomatic systems in politics was promoted.Yang Jiezheng served as the director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee as a member of the Politburo, and Wang Yi continued to serve as a foreign minister as a member of the State Council.

After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October 2022, Wang Yi was not affected by his age and replaced Yang Jiezheng into the new Politburo.This is not only Chinese high -level affirmation of Wang Yi, but also shows that the diplomatic system is still important in political status.

But Wang Yi is nearly seventy years old, and it is not advisable to continue to bear the foreign minister's eastward.At the same time, Wang Yi, who promoted the members of the Politburo, could not continue to serve as a foreign minister. The Chinese diplomatic system must promote newcomers to ensure that the diplomatic team succeeded.

Before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there were several candidates who may be replaced by foreign ministers, including Liu Jieyi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Liu Jianchao, Minister of the Central Committee, and Le Yucheng, executive deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.However, Liu Jieyi did not enter the new Central Committee. Liu Jianchao became the Minister of the Central Committee for only a few months. Le Yucheng was transferred to the Deputy Director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television in the first 20th National Congress.

Qin Gang stood out from this.In the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Qin Gang entered the new Central Committee as the Ambassador to the United States, becoming the first current ambassador to the Central Committee after the reform and opening up, and has also become a strong competitor for the new foreign minister.On December 30, 2022, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress was exempted from Wang Yi's post and appointed Qin Gang as a foreign minister.

56 -year -old Qin Gang is also the youngest foreign minister after China's reform and opening up.He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from college in 1988. He has successively served as the director of the Western European Department, deputy director and director of the Journalism Department. He has been a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs twice for eight years. He has rich experience in dealing with the mediaEssence

When Qin Gang was a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005, his performance was relatively jerky and restrained, but he was quickly adapted to this role and often responded to media questions with "wonderful words".

In March 2014, some media questioned that China's military expenditure was too large, which caused other countries to disturb. Qin Gang responded: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army is not a scouts with a red rifle." "Some people abroad always hope that China is long."Not a big scouts", "Even if it is the scouts, his head is long and one year old, and his feet are bigger year by year. You can't let him always wear previous small clothes and shoes.? "

In July 2021, Qin Gang became the Chinese ambassador to the United States.During the more than 500 days of the Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang also tried his best to show his soft bodies while insisting on his basic position, exchanged and interacting with people from all walks of life and states in the United States, and strived to change the image of China's diplomacy.Qin Gang's performance in the United States is obviously praised by senior China, which is one of the reasons why he can directly be promoted to foreign ministers as a ambassador.

In the future, a new Chinese diplomatic team with Wang Yi and Qin Gang will be a "old -fashioned" situation.After Wang Yi replaced Yang Jiezheng, he will mainly accompany the highest leader to attend foreign affairs activities, and the burden of front -line diplomacy will be mainly on Qin Gang.

Wang Yi published an article on January 1 on January, summarizing the main tasks of Chinese diplomacy in 2023.These include: full service guarantee for the head of the heads of state and center; carefully do a good job in the protection of the head of the head of state, and strive for more favorable external conditions in order to achieve high -quality development; actively understand the transformation and change, and make every effort to prevent and resolve major external risks;, Overall stable and balanced development, deepen China -Russia's strategic mutual trust and mutual benefit cooperation, consolidate the comprehensive strategic collaboration partnership between the two countries; implement the consensus reached by China and the United States, to discuss and establish the principles of Sino -US relations and correct the direction;High -level exchanges and strategic communication promote Sino -European relations to be stable and far away; adhere to the concept of sincerity and benefit with the neighbors, and deepen the integration of friendly mutual trust and interests with neighboring diplomatic policy with neighbors.

But for Chinese diplomacy, how to deal with Sino -US relations, on the basis of ensuring that the bottom line is not broken, maintains basically stable Sino -US relations, and ensure that China and Western countries are not comprehensively "decoupled".Essence

In the context of the long -term game of China and the United States, it is not easy to maintain Sino -US relations. Wang Yi and Qin Gang will face new tests and challenges.Fortunately, Wang and Qin have rich diplomatic experience, and they are also deeply trusted by senior management. The future performance of the two is worth looking forward to.