Aiping

Ai Ping (August 1953-), a native of Wuhan, Hubei. Male, Han nationality, politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China. He joined the team in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province in January 1969, studied at Beijing Foreign Studies University in September 1973, and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1977. In September 1979, he went to Canada to study. He has been working in the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee since October 1977, and has successively served as deputy director, director, director of the African Bureau, and director of the First Bureau. In 2001, he succeeded Jiang Zhengyun as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Ethiopia. In 2004, Lin Lin took over. From May 2010 to March 2014, he served as deputy minister of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.