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CHINESE EMBASSY: NEWLY APPOINTED COUNSELLOR, ZHANG YIJUN
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I was interested to see from a recent visa telegram that Zhang Yijun is shortly to replace Yue Junqing as counsellor and number two at the Chinese Embassy.
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2. Colleagues who served in Peking during the early and mid-1970s are likely to know Zhang, who was UK desk officer in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970-71 and Deputy Director of the MFA's Western Europe Department from 1974-78. (I met Zhang in 1971 and remember playing bridge with him while travelling by train on a diplomatic tour to central China and Guangdong.)
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During the 1970s Zhang was involved in several high level British and American visits to China, including those by President Nixon in 1972, Mr Heath in 1974 and 1975 and Mrs Thatcher in 1977. In late 1975/early 1976, Zhang spent the best part of the year at a 7 May Cadre School.
4. Zhang is aged 52. In the late 1950s/early 1960s he served, for seven years in all, with the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires Office in London. In 1966 he applied for
a visa as interpreter accompanying the Chinese communist party delegation to the Congress of the New Zealand Communist Party; in the event he did not go, but the application suggests that he may have held a party post at the time. We have no information on his activities from 1978 until now.
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