Li Yongjie

Li Yongjie graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1994 and obtained a Master of Laws degree from the University of International Business and Economics in 2001. She has long worked in the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, where she successively served as Deputy Division Director and Division Director of the WTO Legal Affairs Division. In December 2014, she was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law. In January 2021, she became Director-General of the department.^[3]

In June 2024, Li was appointed a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce and Deputy International Trade Representative at the vice-ministerial level.^[4] In September 2025, she was appointed as the Permanent Representative of China to the World Trade Organization [zh].^[5]