Wu Hailong
Wu Hailong | |
|---|---|
| Chinese: 吴海龙 | |
| President of the China Public Diplomacy Association | |
| Assumed office 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1955 (age 71) |
| Party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | Beijing Foreign Studies University |
Wu Hailong (Chinese: 吴海龙; born February 1955) is a Chinese diplomat and public diplomacy official. He is currently the president of the China Public Diplomacy Association. Over the course of his career, Wu has held a wide range of senior positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, including serving as ambassador to the European Union and as China's permanent representative to several United Nations offices and international organizations.[1][2]
Biography
Wu Hailong was born in February 1955 in Chayouqian Banner, Inner Mongolia. He enrolled at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1974 and graduated in 1978. Upon graduation, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, beginning his career as a staff member in the Department of International Organizations.[3]
In the early stages of his diplomatic career, Wu served at China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, where he held posts ranging from attaché to third secretary. He later returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continuing his work in the Department of International Organizations and gradually rising through the ranks to deputy division director. From 1988 to 1992, Wu served at the Chinese Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he was promoted from second secretary to first secretary. He subsequently held senior positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including deputy director-general of the Department of International Organizations. Between 1996 and 1999, he was appointed counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Israel.[4]
Wu Hailong later served as deputy director-general of the Department of International Organizations and concurrently acted as China's APEC Senior Official. From 2001 to 2004, he was deputy commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He was then appointed ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna and other international organizations, while also serving as China's permanent representative to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.[5]
From 2006 to 2009, Wu served as director-general of the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was subsequently appointed assistant minister of foreign affairs, during which time he also served concurrently as vice president of the Red Cross Society of China. Between 2011 and 2014, he was China's head of mission and ambassador to the European Union.[6][7]
From 2014 to 2016, Wu served as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and permanent representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland.[8] He later assumed leadership roles within the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, serving first as president and then as party secretary and president.[9] Since 2019, he has served as president of the China Public Diplomacy Association.[10][2]
References
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- ^ a b "资深外交官吴海龙出任中国公共外交协会会长". 手机新浪网 (in Chinese). 13 October 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "吴海龙：中国制造决不能"制造一堆垃圾"". 中国日报网 (in Chinese). 6 March 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "原外交部国际司司长吴海龙任部长助理". China News Service (in Chinese). 4 January 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "外交学会会长吴海龙兼任党组书记，卢树民去职_人事风向_澎湃新闻-The Paper". thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 5 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "吴海龙：出生入死何所惧 外交生涯写忠诚". 国际--人民网 (in Chinese). 11 August 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "原外交部國際司司長吳海龍任部長助理(圖/簡歷)_CCTV.com_中國中央電視臺". 央視網_世界就在眼前 (in Chinese). 9 January 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
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- ^ "吴海龙大使出任外交学会会长--中国人民外交学会官网". www.cpifa.org. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "外交部原副部长王超出任外交学会会长，接替吴海龙". 澎湃新闻 (in Chinese). 2 July 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2025.