TNAG-2287-FCO40-3290-Chinese-personalities-involved-with-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 91

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TO PRIORITY PEKING

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AND TO PRIORITY LOS ANGELES

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INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG, BTC HONG KONG

NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR

1. THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR CALLED ON BURNS ON 11 MARCH TO SEEK AGREMENT FOR HIS SUCCESSOR, MA YUZHEN, CURRENTLY CONSUL-GENERAL

IN LOS ANGELES.

2. JI SUPPLIED A CV FOR MA AS FOLLOWS:

MA YUZHEN, BORN IN SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA IN SEPTEMBER, 1934. UNIVERSITY GRADUATE

1954 1963 CLERK OF THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, MINISTRY OF

1963 1969

1969

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1980

1980

1984

1984

1988

1988

FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

ATTACHE AND THEN THIRD SECRETARY OF THE EMBASSY OF

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE UNION OF

BURMA.

DEPUTY CHIEF AND THEN CHIEF OF SECTION OF THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

FIRST SECRETARY AND THEN COUNSELLOR OF THE EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA.

DIRECTOR OF THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

CONSUL GENERAL CAMBASSADORIAL RANK) IN LOS ANGELES.

MARRIED WITH ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS.

3. AMBASSADOR JI WAS AT SOME PAINS TO STRESS MA'S GOOD

CREDENTIALS. HE SAID THAT HE HAD KNOWN HIM FOR MANY YEARS: THAT HE WAS VERY OUTWARD GOING AND OPEN, WHICH HAD BEEN ONE OF THE REASONS HE HAD SPENT SO MUCH OF HIS CAREER IN INFORMATION DEPARTMENT. MA HAD (LIKE JI HIMSELF) FACED SEVERE PROBLEMS DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION WHICH HAD HELD BACK HIS PROMOTION.

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