MR HU DINGYI
Mr Hu was born in 1921 in Chongqing, the largest industrial city in Sichuan Province. He studied at the (then Nationalist) Central University in Nanjing and began his diplomatic career in 1950. His first overseas appointment (in 1950) was as Third Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi.
In 1954, Mr Hu was posted as Third (later Second) Secretary in the Office of the Chargé d'Affaires in London. After 4 years he returned to Peking for two years in Western European Department
In 1960 he went to Accra, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. where he worked for six years as Second, (later First) Secretary. In 1972 he returned to London, for a seven-year posting, as Cultural, and Press Counsellor from April 1973.
He then served
in the United States, as Consul-General in San Fransisco
(1979-83) and as Minister in The Embassy in Washington (1983-84). He took on his present appointment as Ambassador in London on 15 April 1985.
Mr Hu is married with a son (studying business management in
His Canada) and a daughter in the Chinese Embassy in Lisbon. wife, Madame Xie Heng was born on 9 September 1926 in Peking. She was Second Secretary in the Embassy during her husband's last posting. They share an interest in the theatre, including fringe theatre.
Mr Hu has an impressive command of English; his wife's is also excellent. She also has responsibility in the Embassy for
town-twinning arrangements.
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