Dai Bingguo
Chinese politician
Dai Bingguo (simplified Chinese: 戴秉国; traditional Chinese: 戴秉國; pinyin: Dài Bǐngguó; born March 31, 1941) is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Starting in 2008, Dai emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration.
A graduate of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian language, Dai was instrumental in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union. Between 1989 and 1991 Dai served as the Chinese ambassador to Hungary. He then served in a succession of roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He served as a State Councilor, director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group of CCP Central Committee, an office that acts as the primary foreign affairs organ of the Chinese Communist Party, and director of the general office of the National Security Leadership Group of the CCP Central Committee, in which he serves in the capacity as a national security advisor to the CCP General Secretary.
Early life
Dai Bingguo was born on 31 March 1941 into a Tujia family in a remote village in Yinjiang County, Guizhou. His family descended from ancestors who had migrated from Ji'an, Jiangxi during the late Ming dynasty and integrated with the local population in Guizhou. Raised in a traditional four-generation rural household living under impoverished circumstances, Dai began working in the fields at age five. His childhood was marked by severe hardship and personal loss; three of his six siblings died young from disease, overwork and extreme poverty.
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