Ambassador Yang Honglin, male, born in March, 1951, in Hebei Province, China, University graduate.

  1976-1977   Staff member, Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  1977-1982   Staff member, Attache, Chinese Embassy in the Sudan

  1982-1986   Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Chinese Embassy in Kuwait

  1986-1992   Second Secretary, Deputy Director, First Secretary, Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  1992-1996   First Secretary, Counselor, Chinese Embassy in Egypt

  1996-1999   Counselor, Department of West Asian and North African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  1999-2000   Counselor, Chinese Embassy in Iraq

  2000-2003   Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Bahrain

  2003-2005   Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Iraq

  2005-2007   Ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  Present         Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  Married, with one daughter.