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Zhao Wuyi

Chinese politician and diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ16925020 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zhao Wuyi (Chinese: 趙五一; pinyin: Zhào Wǔyī) is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Career

In 2006, he succeeded Zhang Tuo and served as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Bolivia. In 2009, he succeeded Gao Zhengyue and served as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Peru until 2011.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zhao Wuyi” as chinese politician and diplomat. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zhao, Wuyi and Chinese.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zhao, Wuyi and Chinese providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zhao Wuyi”, the useful work is to connect “chinese politician and diplomat” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16925020. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2009 and 2011.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Zhao Wuyi primary sources, Zhao Wuyi archive and Zhao research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zhao Wuyi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.