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CONFIDENTIAL

5. WU XUEQIAN

Minister of Foreign Affairs. A State Councillor. Member of the CCP Central Committee.

1921

1939

1949-57

1953-58

1954

1957-64

1958-62

1960

Born in Shanghai.

Joined the CCP.

Deputy Director of the International Liaison Department of the New Democratic Youth League.

Director of the International Liaison Department of the All-China Federation of Democratic Youth.

Member of the Council of the Chinese People's Association for Cultural Relations with Foreign countries.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Youth League.

Vice-Chairman of All-China Youth Federation.

Member of the Council of the China-Africa People's Friendship Association. ..

1961

Member of the China Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee.

1964

1964

1978-82

Member of the Council of the People's Institute for Foreign Affairs.

Deputy for Anhui to the 3rd National People's Congress.

Deputy Director of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party Central Committee..

Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.

1982

1982-

Member of the CCP Central Committee.

1982-

1983-

Minister of Foreign Affairs

State Councillor.

Wu worked in the urban works office of the Party Central China Bureau until shortly before the end of the anti-Japanese war, when he was transferred to Shanghai, where he began a long association with Hu Yaobang. He worked underground in Nationalist- held areas during the civil war and throughout the Fifties and and early Sities, was a senior official in the youth organisations of which Hu was the Chairman. His duties in international liaison departments required him to travel frequently, mostly as leader of Chinese youth delegations as, for instance, when he attended the

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