Hon Yang Jiechi

Here in seniority and power Dai outranks Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a 12 March press conference said that Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had 'commented that they would do all what they could do to influence upon President Beshir'...

Continuing a tradition started by Qian Qichen in the late 1980s the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's first international visit of the year was an African tour to Uganda Rwanda Malawi and South Africa...

During his 16 January visit Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi thanked South Africa for its 'valuable support on issues that concern China's core interests including Taiwan and Tibet...

AFRICA’S CHINESE GUESTSMa Kai Member 16th & 17th CPC Central Committees; Minister State Development & Reform CommissionWen Shizhen Member 16th CPC Central CommitteeCPC LEADERS Hu Jintao PresidentCai Wu Director Central International Communication OfficeMa Wenpu Vice-Minister International Department CPC Central Committee Wu Guanzheng Member Politburo 16th CPC Central Committee; Secretary 16th CPC Central Commission Discipline InspectionWen Jiabao Premier; Member Standing Committee Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central Committees Cao Gangchuan Minister of National DefenceRaidi Vice-Chairman 10th Standing Committee NPC; Chairman Tibet Autonomous RegionXu Caihou Vice-Chairman Central Military Commission 16th & 17th CPC Central Committees; Director-General PLA General Political Department (2003-2005)Wu Bangguo Member Standing Committee Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central CommitteesCheng Siwei Director National Natural Science Foundation of China Science Management DivisionSheng Huaren Secretary General NPC Standing CommitteeYang Zhengwu Member 16th CPC Central CommitteeJia Qinglin Member Standing Committee Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central Committees; Chairman People’s Political Consultative Conference Dai Bingguo Vice-Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sun Jiazheng Minister of CultureZeng Peiyan Vice-Premier; Member Politburo 16th CPC Central Committee (2002-2007) Li Changchun Member Standing Committee Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central CommitteesDu Qinglin Member 16th & 17th CPC Central Committees; Minister of Agriculture (2001-2006)Tan Jialin Deputy Director International Department CPC Central CommitteeZeng Qinghong Vice-President (2003-2007)FOREIGN MINISTERS Gao Qiang Member 17th CPC Central Committee; Minister of Health (2005-2007) Wang Dongming Vice-Minister Organizational Department CPC Central CommitteeZhai Weihua Vice-Minister CPC Central Commission for Guiding Ethic and Cultural Progress Yang Jiechi Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007- )Guo Boxiong Vice-Chairman Central Military Commission 16th & 17th CPC Central CommitteesWang Jiarui Minister International Department CPC Central CommitteeZhang Dejiang Member Politburo 17th CPC Central Committee Li Zhaoxing Minister of Foreign Affairs (2003-2007)Huang Ju Vice-Premier (2003-2007); Member Politburo 16th CPC Central CommitteeWang Lequan Member Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central CommitteesZhang Zhijun Vice-Minister International Department CPC Central CommitteeTang Jiaxuan Member 16th CPC Central Committee; Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998-2003)Hui Liangyu Vice-Premier (2007- ); Member Politburo 16th & 17th CPC Central CommitteesWang Taihua Director State Administration of Radio Film and TelevisionZhou Ji Member 17th CPC Central Committee; Minister of Education OTHER LEADERS Jia Chunwang Procurator-General Supreme People’s ProcuratorateWang Yi Vice Foreign MinisterBo Xilai Member Politburo 17th CPC Central Committee; Minister of Commerce (2004-2007)Li Jinjun Vice-Minister International Department CPC Central Committee Wang Zhongyu Vice-Chairman Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National CommitteeNote: 16th CPC Central Committee Nov 2002 - Nov 2007; 17th CPC Central Committee Nov 2007 -...

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited South Africa on 7 January 2008 to deepen a relationship which has been elevated to a ‘strategic dialogue’...

New Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will have his work cut out...

By tradition China’s Foreign Ministers call at several African capitals in January but Yang Jiechi’s trip this month barely nine months into his job has a special significance...