{{Short description|Chinese diplomat}} {{family name hatnote|Zhang|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = H.E. Ambassador | name = Zhang Yesui | native_name = {{nobold|张业遂}} | native_name_lang = zh-cn | image = U.S. Department of Agriculture 20121219-OSEC-LSC-0051 (cropped).jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | footnotes = | signature = | party = Chinese Communist Party | office1 = Party Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | predecessor1 = Wu Dawei | successor1 = Qi Yu | term_start1 = March 2013 | term_end1 = January 2019 | office3 = Chinese Ambassador to the United States | term_start3 = March 19, 2010 | term_end3 = April 9, 2013 | predecessor3 = Zhou Wenzhong | successor3 = Cui Tiankai | office4 = Chinese Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations | term_start4 = October 10, 2008 | term_end4 = March 3, 2010 | predecessor4 = Wang Guangya | successor4 = Li Baodong | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|10|1}} | birth_place = Hubei Province | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Chen Naiqing | alma_mater = Beijing Foreign Studies University<br>London School of Economics | occupation = }} {{Infobox Chinese | title = Zhang Yesui | showflag = cp | s = 张业遂 | p = Zhāng Yèsuì<br />{{IPAc-cmn|zh|ang|1|-|ye|4|s|ui|4}} | w = Chang Yeh-sui }}
'''Zhang Yesui''' ({{lang-zh |s = 张业遂 }}; born October 1953) is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary for the People's Republic of China. He was formerly the Chinese Ambassador to the United States. He has previously served as Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations in New York City.
==Biography== Zhang Yesui was born in October 1953 in Hubei Province and is a native of that region. He graduated from the Beijing Foreign Studies University and studied at the London School of Economics. After completing his education, he entered diplomatic service and was posted to the Chinese Embassy to the United Kingdom in London. Zhang then assumed various posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's Department of International Organizations and Conferences and Protocol Department. In 2000, he rose to become Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for administration, protocol and personnel and then became Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2003 with areas of responsibility including policy research, Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania affairs, arms control and disarmament, and International Treaty and Law. In 2008, he was appointed China's Ambassador to the United Nations replacing Wang Guangya.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Zhang is married to Chen Naiqing, who is also an ambassador. They have a daughter.<ref>[http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Zhang_Yesui|1400 Biography of Zhang Yesui] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712053737/http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Zhang_Yesui%7C1400 |date=2017-07-12 }}. China Vitae.</ref><ref>[http://www.china-un.org/eng/gywm/hyxx/zysdsjl/ Biography of Ambassador Zhang] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230510/http://www.china-un.org/eng/gywm/hyxx/zysdsjl/ |date=2016-03-03 }}. Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations.</ref> Zhang and his wife were posted to the U.N. Mission from 1988-92. Chen was ambassador to Norway (2003–2007) and ambassador to the Six Party Talks for a year and a half before coming to New York with her husband.<ref>[http://www.ncuscr.org/?q=programs/national-committee-welcomes-ambassadors-zhang-yesui-and-peng-keyu National Committee Welcomes Ambassadors Zhang Yesui and Peng Keyu]. National Committee on United States-China Relations.</ref>
In 2012, Zhang was named Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; he was later named Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (rank equivalent of minister). Zhang is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/web/ |title=中华人民共和国外交部 |website=www.fmprc.gov.cn |access-date=2017-01-25 }}</ref> In the 13th National People's Congress, he became chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=China to adjust annual legislative session arrangements |url=https://english.www.gov.cn/news/topnews/202005/16/content_WS5ebf4650c6d0b3f0e9497c87.html |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=english.www.gov.cn}}</ref>
==See also== * Chinese in New York City
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