Play in the tide for thirty years

Author: Yang Guanqun
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The author joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1950. During the Korean War, he served as a staff member of the Chinese Volunteer Army's armistice negotiation delegation, participating in the entire process of the Panmunjom armistice negotiations, welcoming returning Chinese prisoners of war, and attending the armistice signing ceremony. In 1954, he accompanied Premier Zhou Enlai's delegation to the Geneva Conference on the Korean and Indochina issues. As a member of the advance team, he participated in the establishment of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan and later served as the first ambassadorial translator. In the 1980s, he accompanied Vice Chairman Apai A on his first overseas visit to five Central and South American countries. He also studied President Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in Washington and attended his inauguration. Later, he headed the work of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the ESCAP. As the deputy representative of the Chinese government delegation, he went to Indonesia, which had broken diplomatic relations with China, and South Korea, which had not yet established diplomatic relations, to carry out advance missions. In 1992, he successfully promoted the holding of the largest and highest-level international conference in the UN system—Session 48 of the ESCAP—in Beijing.