Dai Bingguo

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 China's paramount leader 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 Chinese leader Hu Jintao as his special representative to chair the Strategic Track of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue for the Chinese side.

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 was a member of the 15th, 16th and 17th Central Committees of Communist Party of China.

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