Biography of Qiao Guanhua: From Tsinghua Scholar to Minister of Foreign Affairs

Author: Mao Guiming
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: On September 23, 1983, a news dispatch was published on page 4 of People's Daily – Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22: Qiao Guanhua, advisor to the China Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries, passed away this morning at 10:40 in Beijing due to lung cancer, at the age of 70. Qiao Guanhua? Could it be the talented diplomat Qiao Guanhua, who had long roamed the international diplomatic stage, repeatedly shaking the United Nations podium, and was always jokingly referred to as "Old Qiao" by the great figures of the century, such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping?! – Qiao Guanhua's unfortunate passing finally marked the end of his extraordinary, winding, and tumultuous life.