Cheng Guoping

From 1975 to 1980, Cheng Guoping was an educator at the Youth Palace in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Subsequently, from 1980 to 1984, he worked as a staff member at the Compilation Office of the Law Publishing House in Beijing. From 1984 to 1986, he undertook postgraduate studies in international law at the Law Department of Peking University, earning an LL.M. From 1986 until 1993, he held the positions of third secretary, deputy director, and director of the Soviet-European Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1986 to 1993, he held the positions of third secretary, second secretary, deputy director, and director of the Soviet-European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently, from 1993 to 1996, he served as first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the Russian Federation. From 1996 to 1997, served as first secretary of the Eurasian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1997 to 2001, held the position of counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Georgia.^[1] From 2001 until 2003, he held the position of consul general of the People's Republic of China in Khabarovsk. Cheng held the position of consul general of the People's Republic of China in Khabarovsk from 2003 to 2007 and minister at the Chinese embassy in the Russian Federation from 2003 to 2007. He became the director of the Department of Eurasian Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. From September 2008 until 2010, he served as the ambassador of China to the Republic of Kazakhstan.^[2]

From February 2010 to September 2011, he served as assistant minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since September 2011, he has served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China.^[3] In November 2015, he resigned from his position as vice minister of Foreign Affairs.^[4]

In January 2016, he assumed the role of national commissioner for counter-terrorism security; in May 2016, he was elected as the fifth Vice-president of the China Association for International Friendly Contact; in 2019, he became the commissioner for foreign security affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[5]