Chinese Foreign Ministry Promotes Long-Time Spokesperson to Vice Minister

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Hua Chunying. Photo: The Paper

Hua Chunying, China’s assistant foreign minister and long-time ministry spokesperson, has been named vice foreign minister, according to an announcement Monday.

Hua, 54, has spent most of her more-than three decades in government at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). She is the youngest of the five current vice foreign ministers and the only woman.

Starting in late 2012, Hua served as a spokesperson for more than 11 years — the longest term in the ministry’s history. She remains listed as one of four spokespersons on the MFA’s website Monday.

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Hua Chunying has been appointed vice foreign minister, making her the youngest and the only woman among the current vice foreign ministers.
With over 30 years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she served as a spokesperson for more than 11 years, the longest in the ministry's history.
Hua remains director-general of the Department of Press, Communication and Public Diplomacy, a role often leading to higher ministerial positions.

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