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The State Councilor (Chinese: 国务委员; pinyin: Guówù Wěiyuán) is a powerful position within the State Council of the People's Republic of China, i.e. the executive organ of China's central government (comparable to a cabinet). It ranks immediately below the Vice-Premiers and above the Ministers of various departments.^[1]

Role[link]

In theory, State Councilors are to assist the Premier and Vice-Premiers to oversee various government portfolios. They can also represent the State Council (and in turn, China's government) on foreign visits. State Councilors are part of a Standing Committee of the State Council, alongside the Premier, Vice-Premiers, and the Secretary General of the State Council. The organ holds weekly meetings. In practice, a state councilor's portfolios can be very wide-ranging. State councilors often accompany China's higher dignitaries on trips abroad - as was the case with State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan from 2003–08, and Dai Bingguo from 2008–present. Dai also became China's representative at the 2009 G8 Summit in Italy when President Hu Jintao decided to cut short his attendance to return to China in order to deal with the July 2009 Urumqi riots.

List of State Councilors[link]

1988-1998[link]

• Chen Junsheng 1988—1998^[2]
• Li Guixian 1988—1998

1993-1998[link]

• Ismail Amat
• Luo Gan - Secretary General of the State Council

1998-2003[link]

• Wang Zhongyu - Secretary General of the State Council
• Wu Yi
• Ismail Amat

2003-2008[link]

• Chen Zhili - (education, culture, sports-related issues)
• Hua Jianmin - Secretary General of the State Council (economic-related issues)
• Cao Gangchuan - Minister of Defence
• Zhou Yongkang - Minister of Public Security
• Tang Jiaxuan - Foreign Minister

2008-Present[link]

• Liu Yandong - CPPCC Vice Chair
• Liang Guanglie - Minister of Defence
• Ma Kai - Secretary General of the State Council (economic-related issues)
• Meng Jianzhu - Minister of Public Security
• Dai Bingguo - (foreign affairs-related issues)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Governing Laws of the State Council

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Yang Jiechi 杨洁篪
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent
Assumed office April 27, 2007
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Deputy	Zhang Zhijun
Preceded by	Li Zhaoxing
Personal details
Born	May 1950 (age 62) Shanghai, China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Spouse(s)	Le Aimei
Alma mater	University of Bath London School of Economics Nanjing University
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Yang Jiechi (born May 1950) is the current and the tenth Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China. He was promoted to China's top diplomatic post on April 27, 2007.

Biography[link]

Early life and education[link]

Yang was born in Shanghai in May 1950. He graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language School and attended the University of Bath and the London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He has a PhD in history.

Diplomatic career[link]

He previously served as a diplomat in the United States, beginning as a Second Secretary in 1983 and later as Ambassador from 2001 to 2005, and as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for Latin America and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

During his tenure as ambassador to the United States, Yang worked to ease the tensions between the two countries following the 2001 mid-air collision between a U.S. EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet off the coast of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.

Yang Jiechi and the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva

Foreign minister[link]

In April 2007, Yang replaced Li Zhaoxing, who had served as China's foreign minister since 2003, as the tenth foreign minister of China. As it is traditional for China's cabinet ministers to retire at the age of 65, Yang, who was 57 in 2007, is expected to hold China's top diplomatic post past 2012.

In July 2010 at the ASEAN Ministers Conference in Hanoi, Yang, responding to remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, called the remarks "an attack on China" and told Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo that "China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that's just a fact."^[1]

In a meeting with Australia's foreign minister Bob Carr, Yang criticized the decision to put US Marines in Australia's Northern Territory by telling Carr "Cold War alliances" were out of date, to which Carr "reminded Yang that Chinese leaders like to relate the story of the Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He...[who] took powerful Chinese fleets as far afield as India and Arabia but sought to occupy no lands".^[2]

Honors[link]

Yang Jiechi received an honorary degree from the Geneva School of Diplomacy in 2009.^[3]

See also[link]

• Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
• People's Republic of China diplomatic missions
• Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Yang Jiechi

• Biography of Yang Jiechi, China Vitae.
• Biography of Yang Jiechi, Xinhuanet.
• Foreign Ministry Profile
• Foreign Minister's Profile

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Liu Yandong 刘延东
State Councilor of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent
Assumed office March 17, 2008
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Member of the 17th Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2007
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
Personal details
Born	November 1945 Nantong, Jiangsu
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Tsinghua University

Liu Yandong (born November 1945) is an official of the Communist Party of China currently serving on the Politburo. She also holds the post of State Councilor. Since the retirement of Wu Yi, she has been the highest-ranked female politician in the Party, and the only woman with a seat on the Politburo.

Biography[link]

A native of Nantong, Jiangsu, Liu graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970 with a degree in chemistry. Between 2002 and 2007, she served as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China, an organization that keeps non-Communist Chinese political parties in line with the general ideology of the Communist Party. Having long been an ally of President Hu Jintao and ascended from the ranks of the Communist Youth League, she entered the 17th Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 2007. At the 2008 National People's Congress she was elected State Councilor, and was not elected as a Vice-Premier. On April 13, 2009, Stony Brook University conferred Madame Liu Yandong with an Honorary Doctor of Laws.

See also[link]

• Tsinghua clique

External links[link]

• (Chinese) Profile of Liu Yandong, Xinhua News Agency.

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Dai Bingguo 戴秉国
State Councilor of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent
Assumed office March 17, 2008
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Personal details
Born	(1941-03-01) March 1, 1941 (age 71) Yinjiang County, Guizhou
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Sichuan University China Foreign Affairs University

Dai Bingguo (simplified Chinese: 戴秉国; traditional Chinese: 戴秉國; pinyin: Dài Bǐngguó; born March 1941) is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Since 2008, Dai has emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration.

A graduate of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian language, Dai was instrumental in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union. Between 1989 and 1991 Dai served as the Chinese ambassador to Hungary. He then served in a succession of roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He currently serves as a State Councilor, director of general office of foreign affairs leadership group of CPC Central Committee, an office that acts as the primary foreign affairs organ of the Communist Party of China, and director of general office of National Security Leadership Group of the CPC Central Committee, in which he serves in the capacity as a national security advisor to the President.

Biography[link]

Dai Bingguo was born in a village located in Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province. He belongs to the Tujia ethnic minority. He graduated from the department of foreign languages of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian, and later studied at the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU). He joined the Communist Party of China in June 1973. He served as the Chinese Ambassador to Hungary from 1989 to 1991. He had served in the Foreign Ministry of the PRC for many years and was elevated to Vice Foreign Minister in December 1993. In June 1995, Dai was transferred from the "foreign affairs system" of the State Council to the "international liaison system" of the Central Committee of the CPC, and became Vice Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPC. In August 1997, on the eve of the 15th CPC National Congress, he was promoted to Director of the International Department. In May 2003, Dai returned to the Foreign Ministry and served as Vice Minister until April 2008, being responsible for handling the North Korea nuclear crisis. In March 2008, he was appointed State Councilor and Party group member on the State Council.

On July 8, 2009, Dai replaced the Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy.^[1] Hu suddenly had to leave the summit because of July 2009 Ürümqi riots between Uyghurs and Han-Chinese.

In 2009, Dai was appointed by President Hu Jintao as his special representative to chair the Strategic Track of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue for the Chinese side.

Reputation[link]

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has called Dai "an outstanding personality" and former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski noted that he was "a superb individual".^[2]

Personal[link]

Dai is the son-in-law of Huang Zhen, a senior Chinese diplomat, former vice Foreign Minister, Minister of Culture and first vice director of propaganda department of CPC Central Committee. He is a member of 15th, 16th and 17th Central Committees of Communist Party of China.

External links[link]

• Dai Bingguo's profile at people.com.cn (Chinese)

References[link]

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Ma Kai (simplified Chinese: 马凯; traditional Chinese: 馬凱; pinyin: Mǎ Kǎi; born 1946 in Xingxian, Shanxi, China) is a State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

Biography[link]

Ma Kai was born in Jinshan, Shanghai in 1946. He received his Master's degree from Renmin University of China in 1982.

His portfolio also includes putting forth Chinese policies with regard to global warming. He was a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and is the current member of 17th Central Committee.

In 2003 he was given responsibility for the National Development and Reform Commission, an organisation which has broad administrative and planning control over the economy of the People's Republic of China.^[1]

See also[link]

• Energy in China

References[link]

External links[link]

• China's top economic planner meets press (03/07/07)

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