Yao Peisheng

Yao Peisheng (1945- , ), a native of Taicang, Jiangsu, is a former diplomat of the People's Republic of China and a researcher at the Center for Contemporary World Studies.

Biography Yao Peisheng graduated from Liuhe Middle School in 1964, was admitted to Beijing Foreign Language Institute in the same year, and was assigned to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after graduation. He was assigned as an attaché to the Chinese Embassy in the former Soviet Union (USSR) as an officer in 1973, where he was engaged in administrative and research work. He was promoted to the position of First Secretary in 1977. He became the Director of the Office of the Sino-Soviet Border Negotiating Mission in 1986, and the Head of the Eurasian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991.

In 1994, he became the ambassador of China to Kyrgyzstan; in 1997, the ambassador of China to Latvia; in 1999, the ambassador of China to Kazakhstan; in 2003, the ambassador of China to Ukraine; and he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2005.

From 2009 to 2012, he was an expert on the finalization of the CCTV Russian, and in 2010, he was the Deputy General Representative of the Chinese Government at the Shanghai World Expo.