Jiang Yu

Biography

A native of Beijing, she has been working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over twenty years and she had been posted around the world, including the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and the Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong.

Over the years, she has become noted for her sharp commentary. In March 2011, her comments regarding the handling of journalists operating in mainland China in the wake of growing social unease about restricted civil liberties in the mainland attracted some attention.

Positions held

1987-1991: Staff Member of Beijing Personnel Service Corporation for Diplomatic Missions

• From 1991 to 1992 she was Staff Member, Attaché, Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

1992-1995: Attaché, Third Secretary, Chinese Permanent Mission to the UN, New York

1995-2002: Third Secretary, Deputy Director and Director, Information Department, MFA

2002-2005: Counsellor, Office of the Commissioner of MFA in Hong Kong

2005-2006: Counsellor, Information Department, MFA

• From 2006 to 2012 she was Deputy Director-General of the Information Department, MFA to this post belongs the office as spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
• From 2012 to 2015 she was Depty Correspondent of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
• Since 2015 she is ambassadrice in Tirana.