Keynote Speaker

Mme. Yang Xiuping

Mme. Yang Xiuping, born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, graduated from Beijing Foreign Language University.

1980-1985	Staff member of the Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1985-1988	Attaché of the Chinese Language Division, United Nation Office in Geneva
1988-1993	Third Secretary, Deputy Division Chief of the Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993-1996	Second Secretary, First Secretary in the Chinese Mission to UN
1996-1998	First Secretary, Division Chief, Counsellor of the Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998-2002	Counsellor, spokesperson of the Commissioner's Office of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Special Administrative Region in Hong Kong
2002-2004	Consul-General of the People's Republic of China in Auckland of New Zealand
2004-2008	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Lithuania
2008-2011	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to the Republic of Maldives Concurrently
2011-2012	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
2012-2015	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to ASEAN
2015-	Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre
	Married with one daughter.