Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian Transferred to Ocean Affairs Department

Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has become the deputy director-general of the ministry’s Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, the ministry’s website showed Monday.

Zhao had been a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since February 2020. He became the deputy head of the ministry’s Information Department in August 2019. The 50-year-old previously worked in the ministry’s Asia Department and served various roles at Chinese embassies in the U.S. and in Pakistan.