Yang Chengxu

Yang Chengxu is a senior Chinese diplomat to German-speaking countries.

Yang Chengxu
杨成绪
Chair, PECC China
In office
1995 – September 2005
Preceded byLi Luye
Succeeded byMei Ping
President, China Institute of International Studies
In office
May 1993 – November 2001
Preceded byDu Gong
Succeeded bySong Mingjiang
Chinese Ambassador to Austria
In office
November 1985 – October 1989
Preceded byWang Shu
Succeeded byHu Benyao
Personal details
Born1930 (age 89–90)
Qingdao, Shandong
Alma materFudan University
Xinhua Foreign Languages Institute
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.

He was born in Qingdao in 1930 and later moved to Shanghai with his family.[1] In 1952, he received his bachelor's degree in German Literature from Fudan University and started to work for the All-China Journalists Association. In 1962, Yang was sent to the Xinhua News Agency-founded Foreign Languages Institute to take advanced training courses.[2] In 1973, he joined the Chinese Foreign Ministry and served successively as Secretary, Counsellor and Minister-Counsellor in Chinese Embassies in Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic.[3]

In 1985, he was appointed Chinese Ambassador to Austria and was succeeded by Hu Benyao in 1989.[4] He was then appointed director of the Department of Policy Planning and deputy director of the Department of West European Affairs of the Foreign Ministry.

From May 1993, he succeeded Du Gong as President of the China Institute of International Studies and was relieved from the position in November 2001.[5] He also chaired PECC China, the China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CNCPEC) from 1995 to 2005.[6]

References
  1. Zong, Diaoyi (1999). "Yang Chenxu and his German teacher". Jiang Hai Qiao Sheng (10). Retrieved 11 November 2013. (in Chinese)
  2. Yang, Chengxu (2004). "Memories of My Student Life at Erwai". In BISU Editorial (ed.). BISU: 40 Years Old. China Youth Press. pp. 409–412. ISBN 7500659717.
  3. "The Rise of a Multipolar World: Sino-European Relations in the Last Decades of the Cold War (1960s-1980s)" (PDF). Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies. p. 4.
  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. "Chinese Ambassadors to Austria".
  5. "CIIS in Brief". China Institute of International Studies.
  6. China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. "Leadership".(in Chinese)


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