boots finally landed! According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying served as the director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she also became the first female director of the Information Department since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established the spokesperson system.
Screenshot of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
Statement since July 18, Lu Kang announced at a press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that he would no longer serve as director and spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs News Department. Who will serve as Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? This issue has attracted much attention. Foreign media have previously speculated that Hua Chunying will become Lu Kang's successor.
It is worth noting that since February this year, Hua Chunying has not made any public appearances until July 12, the front page of " Learning Times " published Hua Chunying's signed article "Occupy the Moral High Point and Enhance the International Discourse Right". It turned out that she temporarily left the Blue Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in the four and a half months of full-time closed study of Class 1, China Youth Class of the Central Party School (National School of Administration).
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from a cadre family, enthusiastic to help students analyze emotional problems
time was called back to November 16, 2012. After the questioning session of the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qin Gang, then Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced to the outside world that Hua Chunying was the new spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In her spokesperson's "first show", she said: "I will do my best to help everyone understand China's foreign policy in a timely, accurate and comprehensive manner. I also look forward to having sincere communication, equal exchanges, and good cooperation with you, and making positive efforts to enhance mutual understanding, understanding, trust and cooperation between China and the world."
According to public information, Hua Chunying is from Jiangsu. After graduating from Nanjing University in 1992, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Early diplomatic careers have been associated with Europe. In 1993, she joined the Western European Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then worked in the Singapore Embassy for 4 years. From 1999 to 2003, she returned to the Western European Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as the Third Secretary and Deputy Director. Since then, she has started a long European career and worked in the Chinese Mission to the European Union for 7 years, during which she has gradually been promoted to counselor. In 2010, she returned to Beijing and served as the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was not until 2012 that Hua Chunying was promoted to deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and replaced Jiang Yu's work.
According to local media in Jiangsu, Gao Congping, the head teacher of Hua Chunying, said that Hua Chunying was born in a cadre family. His father was the former secretary of the Huaiyin County Discipline Inspection Commission, and his mother was the former vice chairman of the Qinghe District CPPCC of Huai'an City. Hua Chunying and his mother were surnamed.
Now, Hua Chunying is affectionately called "Sister Hua" by netizens, but she did have another nickname - "Forsythia".
Zhou Dandan, who once had a university dormitory with Hua Chunying, recalled that they lived in the 8th house of Nanda Nanyuan at that time. There are 8 girls in the dormitory, and everyone calls Hua Chunying "Forsythia", because her name is reversed and her birthday is exactly April.
Photo of Hua Chunying in college (second from right)
During college, although Hua Chunying was not in love, she was an enthusiastic "love expert". Zhou Dandan told the media: "After we turn off the lights, we often hold bedside meetings. What emotional problems we encounter when we communicate, and what troubles we have, Hua Chunying always helps analyze and come up with ideas, and always speaks with great sensation. At that time, we all felt that Hua Chunying had a great ambition. In the dormitory, she was the only one who had not fallen in love in four years. She spent all her time studying, studied very seriously, and remembered her notes very carefully." In addition to the blue hall, "Sister Hua" is also a tennis expert
. In addition to daily press conferences, Hua Chunying's public exposure is not high. Everyone's understanding of her daily life is only a brief introduction to the official website "Married, there is a girl".
However, a report from China Sports Daily made the public discover that "Sister Hua" outside the Blue Hall is also a tennis expert.
It is reported that before 2013, Hua Chunying had never received tennis system training. At that time, as a tennis enthusiast of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she participated in the volunteer backbone training of the Central State Organs Tennis Association. Every weekend afterwards, as long as she didn’t go on business or work overtime, she would participate in training and start with the most basic tennis movements, which also laid a solid basic skill for her.
In 2015, Hua Chunying was absorbed into the backbone of volunteers of the State Organs Tennis Association and began to participate in tennis competitions. Her level continued to improve, and her love and pursuit of tennis was also rising.
As we all know, the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is usually five times a week, usually hosted by a spokesperson. At press conferences for five consecutive days, the workload can be imagined.
"At that time, I even felt a little difficult to breathe and was extremely tired. I lay down immediately after the press conference. My husband took me to do acupuncture treatment in the evening." Perhaps it was physical discomfort, which made Hua Chunying firmly believe the importance of exercise and fitness. "My work is special, and I especially need a good condition. Maintaining a good condition is a very important guarantee for me to do my job well."
She expressed her daily life to the media: "In addition to working and working overtime, I am on the tennis court or at home."
A seven-year career as a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying has won the favor of many people because of her slightly sharp answers and sunny appearance. She even has her own fans in Japan. Some Japanese netizens said that Hua Chunying is like a "beautiful witch" and "as beautiful as if she was cast by magic."
and even a mistake at a press conference made her "grow" a large number of fans in Japan. At that time, a Japanese reporter asked a spokesperson to comment on the debut of the giant panda "Xiangxiang". Hua Chunying thought the reporter asked questions about the Japanese Foreign Ministry official "Suzuyama", and answered them seriously. After a Chinese reporter explained the misunderstanding to Hua Chunying, she showed a bright smile, and was praised by netizens as "her smile is very warm and cute", "the highest smile", "Hua Chunying is very cute and cute when she smiles"...
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"Four Golden Flowers" have all become ambassadors abroad after leaving office
In fact, in addition to the "forschonian flowers", the Ministry of Foreign Affairs once had "Four Golden Flowers".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs first established a spokesperson in 1983 and was one of the earliest Chinese government ministries to establish a fixed press release mechanism. Hua Chunying is the 27th spokesperson and the 5th spokesperson since the establishment of the spokesperson system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before Hua Chunying, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had four female spokespersons, namely Li Jinhua, Fan Huijuan, Zhang Qiyue and Jiang Yu. These four were once called the "Four Golden Flowers" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Xinhuanet data, Li Jinhua, the first spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was born in Jinan City, Shandong Province in September 1932. He grew up in Tianjin since childhood. He lost his father at a young age and was raised by his widowed mother, brother and sister-in-law. In 1949, he was admitted to the History Department of Nankai University. Graduated in 1953. At the age of 22, he was assigned to work in the Library and Information Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the predecessor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From then on until the mid-1990s, during his more than 40 years of diplomatic career, Li Jinhua spent almost half of his time in the News Department, serving as clerk, deputy director, counselor, and deputy director.
From 1987 to 1991, Li Jinhua made frequent appearances at dozens of regular press conferences by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, clarifying the Chinese government's foreign policy and principled position on major international issues in a verbal battle. Li Jinhua was later appointed as China's ambassador to New Zealand , becoming the second female ambassador to New China to be sent to Oceania countries.
The second spokeswoman Fan Huijuan was born in Shanghai in 1935. Her ancestral home is Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, Zhenhai Sanbei. He studied in Shanghai Jinde Girls' Middle School and Xiaoming Girls' Middle School. Joined the China New Democratic Youth League in 1950. In 1955, he was admitted to the English class of the Diplomacy Department of the School of Diplomacy. He graduated in 1960 and was assigned to the West Asia and Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as clerk and secretary of the department of three departments ( West Africa ). In 1964, he served as a staff member of the Chinese Embassy in Syria. In 1969, he went to Hubei and Jiangxi cadre schools to participate in labor. In 1972, he served as clerk, second-class secretary and deputy director of the West Asia and North Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He entered the Central Party School in 1982. In 1983, he served as the first-class secretary of the Third Division of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1986, he served as the Counselor of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva. In 1990, he served as deputy director-level counselor of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and director of the Third Department.In 1991, he served as spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deputy director of the Department of News (at the age of 56). He was the second spokeswoman since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established the press spokesperson system in the early 1980s. In December 1993, Fan Huijuan was appointed as China's fifth ambassador to Ireland and left office in November 1997.
Zhang Qiyue was born in a diplomatic family. Her father Zhang Shu served as the Chinese ambassador to Belgium and Japan, and also served as the government counselor of the China Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Her mother Xue Runwu also served in the Cadre Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
982, after graduating from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (now Beijing Foreign Studies University), Zhang Qiyue was admitted to the United Nations interpreter training class, and then served as simultaneous interpretation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the Secretariat of the Office in Geneva. In 1995, Zhang Qiyue was sent to work at the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations. In 1998, Zhang Qiyue returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from New York and served as deputy director of the Department of News. On January 26, 1999, he hosted a regular press conference as the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the first time, becoming China's third spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In February 2005, Zhang Qiyue replaced Guan Chengyuan as Chinese ambassador to Belgium. In August 2008, she replaced Lan Lijun as Chinese ambassador to Indonesia. In August 2018, Zhang Qiyue served as Chinese ambassador to Greece. The fourth "golden flower" Jiang Yu was born in Beijing in 1964. He graduated from the English Department of the School of Foreign Affairs at the age of 22. He worked in the Permanent Mission of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the United Nations. He has served as the spokesperson of the Office of the Special Commissioner in Hong Kong since 2003. At the end of 2005, he was transferred back to the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Beijing as a political consultant.
On June 13, 2006, 42-year-old Jiang Yu made his debut as the new spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2012, Jiang Yu served as deputy commissioner of the Office of the Special Administrative Region of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 2015, he was appointed as ambassador to Albania, starting his first ambassador experience. In March this year, he was appointed as ambassador to Romania.
The reason why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is "complex and colorful" is also given special considerations. " Outlook Oriental Weekly " once quoted a Chinese reporter as saying that women may have better results in representing China, because women can give a country a better appearance and image. "Women speak softly, have a decent appearance, and speak very well. These can give China extra points internationally." Some experts from pointed out that choosing female spokespersons is China's implementation of the "hardness and softness" policy and strengthening external communication skills. Editor-in-chief of column: Liu Lu Text editor: Charui Title picture source: Xinhua News Agency (data photo) Photo editor: Xiang Jianying
